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Email Issues Affect Time Goes By
I will get to those email issues in a moment, but first: This is the third week of the new publishing schedule at Time Goes By – Monday, Wednesday, Friday instead of Monday through Friday. Saturday (Interesting Stuff) and Sunday... Read More...
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Wed, Apr 29 2015 5:30 AM
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Generations: The Passing of the Baton
One of the biggest changes in old age is how we are treated by other, mostly younger, people. We are ignored, dismissed and made invisible based solely on our appearance. Put the same words, thoughts and opinions we have in... Read More...
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Mon, Apr 27 2015 5:30 AM
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ELDER MUSIC: 1975
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...
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Sun, Apr 26 2015 5:30 AM
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INTERESTING STUFF – 25 April 2015
YOU'LL BE GETTING A NEW MEDICARE CARD People have long complained (correctly) that Social Security numbers displayed prominently on the U.S. Medicare card makes identity theft easy. It's right there in the middle labeled “Medicare Claim Number...
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Sat, Apr 25 2015 5:30 AM
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Elder Fashion – Still an Oxymoron
We gave Wednesday over to a men's club this week. Let's make today, Friday, women's day although men are as welcome to chime in as women did on Wednesday. When I first wrote about “elder fashion” here in 2008, I... Read More...
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Fri, Apr 24 2015 5:30 AM
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It's About Retired Men Today
If you read this blog regularly, you know there are a lot more women who comment than men. That is likely due to the fact that there are more elder women than men – we (women) tend to live longer... Read More...
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Wed, Apr 22 2015 5:30 AM
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Dear Diary: A Foolish Passionate Woman
On reading The New York Times Op-Ed page yesterday, I had a bit of a private snit about columnist Maureen Dowd. As usual. Again. From that you would be correct to infer I am not a fan. Never have been.... Read More...
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Mon, Apr 20 2015 5:30 AM
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ELDER MUSIC: Songs with Street Names
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...
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Sun, Apr 19 2015 5:30 AM
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INTERESTING STUFF – 18 April 2015
THE ONLY KNOWN FOOTAGE OF ANNE FRANK It's grainy, black-and-white shot on 22 July 1941, but you know immediately that it is Anne Frank. She is leaning out of the second-floor window of her home in Amsterdam watching a bride... Read More...
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Sat, Apr 18 2015 5:30 AM
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Disengagement in Old Age
Readers sometimes send me interesting questions about getting old (as if you think I actually have answers). When they are specific and about topics on which there is a body of knowledge and consensus from experts, I can act as... Read More...
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Fri, Apr 17 2015 5:30 AM
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A Workbook for Healthy Aging
When I was a kid, old people regularly annoyed me with a mantra they used as a catchall comment to discussions of even the mildest difficulties: “As long as you've got your health.” they repeated. “As long as you've got... Read More...
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Wed, Apr 15 2015 5:30 AM
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The Forgotten Generations and Ageism
REMINDER: Beginning today, Time Goes By will not be published on Tuesdays and Thursdays as in the past 10 years. This is an experiment to be re-evaluated in the fall. In addition, links are no longer appended at the bottom... Read More...
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Mon, Apr 13 2015 5:30 AM
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ELDER MUSIC: 1974
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...
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Sun, Apr 12 2015 5:30 AM
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INTERESTING STUFF – 11 April 2015
COLLEGE STUDENTS LIVING RENT-FREE IN ELDER HOUSING This idea seems to be growing around the world and it is such a good one: ”In exchange for small, rent-free apartments, the Humanitas retirement home in Deventer, Netherlands, requires students to spend...
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Sat, Apr 11 2015 5:13 AM
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Finding One's Own Kind of Retirement
A month or so ago, I received an email from long-time TGB reader James Wallace Harris who blogs at Auxiliary Memory. He has been retired for awhile now and is feeling restless from what might be too much unaccustomed freedom:... Read More...
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Fri, Apr 10 2015 5:30 AM
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