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Happy Halloween 2014

Searching for something special to celebrate Halloween here today, I couldn't find anything until this. It is a beautifully made video titled The Kingdom of Witches that sets a great spooky mood for Halloween. The music is by Nox Arcana... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 31 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
A Super-Important, Amazing New Book on End-of-Life Care

For the past couple of days I've been reading Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End from Atul Gawande, the Harvard Medical School professor who is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and a... Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 22 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
Keeping Up with Technology While Old – or Not

Have you heard about the “Internet of Things”? The idea is that before long, everything you own – toaster, refrigerator, alarm clock, heater and air conditioner, electric razor and even toilet – will be connected via computer chip to the... Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 09 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
Old and Useless at 52?

Silicon Valley was barely a concept when I first heard about ageism in the tech industry. Back in the early 1990s, the online job boards and forums were already filled with terrible unemployment tales from experienced programmers who couldn't get...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
By the Hair on Crabby Old Lady's Chinny Chin Chin

Before she even gets started, let Crabby Old Lady be clear: she is deeply grateful that so far – at age 73 – she has escaped the common conditions and diseases of old age. No arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, high... Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 29 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
My Visitors From Oz

If you read Peter Tibbles' Elder Music column yesterday, you know that he and Norma Gates, the Assistant Musicologist, traveled all the way from Melbourne to visit me in Oregon. Oh, okay. The journey wasn't just to see me. They... Read More.....

Published Mon, Oct 27 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
Elder Women and Eleanor's Hope

When I starting out in the world on my own in the late 1950s, there weren't many careers available to women. Our choices were mostly confined to waitress or office worker and, for the few who attended college, teacher or... Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 16 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
ELDER MUSIC: Here and There 2014

This Sunday Elder Music column was launched in December of 2008. By May of the following year, one commenter, Peter Tibbles, had added so much knowledge and value to my poor attempts at musical presentations that I asked him to... Read More...

Published Sun, Oct 26 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
Email Bankruptcy

[EDITORIAL NOTE: It tells you something about Crabby's week, if not life, that you are getting missives (read: complaints) from her two days in a row. Aren't you lucky. Every day, Crabby Old Lady struggles to keep up with email.... Read More....

Published Thu, Oct 30 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
TGB FORUM: Readers Write the Blog – Day 4

As I explained on Monday, while Peter Tibbles and Norma Gates are visiting from Melbourne, I am taking a mini-vacation and letting you, dear readers, write the blog based on your own topics. Today's comes from Bruce Cooper with somethiing... Read...

Published Thu, Oct 02 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
To Reclaim the Word “Old”

As I have explained here many times in the past, I made a deliberate decision when I began this blog a decade ago to never use old-age euphemisms - those cutesy-poo names like golden-ager, third-ager and oldster along with the... Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 15 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
It is Okay to Just Be Old

For five days last week you, dear readers, wrote this blog by responding to forum topics many of you had already suggested during the previous week. And a fine job you did of it. Lots of interesting opinions, thoughts, ideas... Read More...

Published Mon, Oct 06 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
TGB FORUM: Readers Write the Blog – Day 3

As I explained on Monday, while Peter Tibbles and Norma Gates are visiting from Melbourne, I am taking a mini-vacation and letting you, dear readers, write the blog based on your own topics. Today's comes from Cathy Johnson and I... Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 01 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
INTERESTING STUFF – 4 October 2014

FROM BIRTH TO AGE 80 IN FOUR MINUTES Age progression videos are always fun to watch. This one, a “live” painting, is by South Korean illustrator Seok Jeong-hyeon. THE ART OF THE OBIT For nearly 20 years, Margalit Fox has... Read More...

Published Sat, Oct 04 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
ELDER MUSIC: 1962 Again

This Sunday Elder Music column was launched in December of 2008. By May of the following year, one commenter, Peter Tibbles, had added so much knowledge and value to my poor attempts at musical presentations that I asked him to... Read More...

Published Sat, Oct 11 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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