October 2015 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

INTERESTING STUFF – 31 October 2015

SWEET DEDICATION OF A LIFETIME TGB reader Nana Royer sent this video of a 101-year-old Brookline, Massachusetts candy store owner who has been opening her shop “just about every morning” since before I was born in 1941. TODAY IS HALLOWEEN... Read More...

Published Sat, Oct 31 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Unexpected Passions

From time to time through the years of this blog, readers have written to tell me that although their job, the way they made their living, had never been much to write home about, they had another life. They came... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 30 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

A Contradiction of Old Age

It makes me happy when I come across other people writing about the serious effects of ageist language. The latest I've seen is from a trio of academics who work in the field of ageing: ”Recent articles in a variety... Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 28 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

What Really Matters at the End of Life

Many years ago - even decades - when I was still quite young, I knew how I want to die. It hasn't changed and it isn't unique: I want to be conscious, clear-headed and pain-free so that I can concentrate,... Read More...

Published Mon, Oct 26 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Playing with Mr B

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 25 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 24 October 2015

AGE BOOM: EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS With a dozen other journalists, back in 2009, I attended an intensive week of study about ageing in New York City called the Age Boom Academy. It was founded by geriatrician Robert N. Butler and held... Read More...

Published Sat, Oct 24 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

MENTAL DOODLES: Memory, The Line and Mystery

EDITORIAL NOTE: Since sometime in 2003 when I first began thinking about creating this blog, I have kept a notebook, a journals if you will or maybe it is what used to be called a commonplace book - now a... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 23 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Old Fashioned Slang, Words and Phrases

EDITORIAL NOTE: Serendipity is a delightful word and, of course, it is an equally delightful occurrence. After I had finished writing today's post about one kind of language, I heard from Kirsten Jacobs, a young woman who is the education... Read...

Published Wed, Oct 21 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Will Congress Raise the Debt Ceiling before Social Security Payments are Affected?

EDITORIAL NOTE: Today's post is so U.S.-centric that non-American readers in other countries should feel free to take the day off. * * * Congress has done no governing since their last election in 2014 – none – but as... Read More...

Published Mon, Oct 19 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Don Gibson

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 18 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 17 October 2015

CELEBRATED CELLIST YO-YO MA TURNS 60 With the commonplace time slippage in old age, it feels to me like yesterday or so that I first heard of Yo-Yo Ma in the early 1960s when he was a kid, a child... Read More...

Published Sat, Oct 17 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Preparing a Final Blog or Facebook Post

It has been many years since I wrote on this topic but it came to mind a couple of weeks ago when I announced the new Elderbloggers List and spoke of the blogs that were either abandoned or had disappeared:... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 16 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Language of Memory and Forgetting

With what I believe is the excessive amount of media attention given to Alzheimer's and other dementias, elders can be forgiven for being overly concerned about where they misplaced the house keys. We console ourselves with such slogans as, “If.....

Published Wed, Oct 14 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Ageing in Place – Or Maybe Not

In every survey taken over many years, about 90 percent of old people say they want to age in place – that is, stay in the home where they are now and have lived for many years. In addition, it... Read More...

Published Mon, Oct 12 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: 1934

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 11 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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INTERESTING STUFF – 31 October 2015

Unexpected Passions

A Contradiction of Old Age

What Really Matters at the End of Life

ELDER MUSIC: Playing with Mr B

INTERESTING STUFF – 24 October 2015

MENTAL DOODLES: Memory, The Line and Mystery

Old Fashioned Slang, Words and Phrases

Will Congress Raise the Debt Ceiling before Social Security Payments are Affected?

ELDER MUSIC: Don Gibson

INTERESTING STUFF – 17 October 2015

Preparing a Final Blog or Facebook Post

The Language of Memory and Forgetting

Ageing in Place – Or Maybe Not

ELDER MUSIC: 1934