December 2015 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

Ghost Stores for Christmas Eve Eve

Here is an 1842 John Leech illustration of Ebenezer Scrooge and Marley's Ghost from, of course, the classic holiday story by Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. I stole that image from an article at Paris Review that dropped in my... Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 23 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

A Departure from Elder Issues

The entire purpose of this blog, as the subtitle above says, is to discuss what it is really like to get old. If, in the dozen or so years of the existence of Time Goes By, I have written about... Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 09 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

A Holiday Pet Feast

You might have noticed that I am mostly taking off these two holiday weeks from anything serious. A kind of vacation to get rested for the new year. Today's silliness dropped into my inbox at the last minute. You've probably... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 28 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 26 December 2015

101 YEAR OLD WOMAN SEES HERSELF ON TELEVISION First, the wimp website posted this video of 101-year old Albina Foisy who had asked her son to stop the car so she would play in the snow. It went viral on... Read More...

Published Sat, Dec 26 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Toes Up for the Second Half of 2015

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, Dec 27 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Dreading Dementia

More than once or twice I have complained here about how the media seems to work overtime scaring the pants off old people about Alzheimer's disease. There is more reporting about it than any other of the diseases of age.... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 14 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

LAGNIAPPE: Drug Company CEO Shkreli Arrested on Fraud Charges

Today's note is a perfect use of the little feature recently introduced here at TGB. Lagniappe is for short items that are extra special or time-worthy enough to post on Tuesday or Thursday, days on which I usually do not... Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 17 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Darlene Coster, Mending Well at Home

If you read the comments here regularly, you know Darlene Costner. She usually has something smart or pithy or funny to say and more readers leave such comments as, “What Darlene said,” than they do anyone else. Darlene also supplies... Read More...

Published Tue, Dec 15 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Variations on Take Five and Moanin'

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, Dec 13 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Merry Christmas, Everyone - 2015

Here it is Christmas Day again. Every damned year I say to myself, “Huh? Didn't we do this just last week? Of course, only old people say things like that. If you've got any little kids around you know they... Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 25 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 19 December 2015

REGIFTING – A WEB EXCLUSIVE FROM JOHN OLIVER John Oliver and his HBO program, Last Week Tonight, are off the air until February. But he didn't forget us at Christmas time. This is a web exclusive of Oliver's take on... Read More...

Published Sat, Dec 19 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

A Good Year for Elder Actors

Not infrequently, I grumble out loud around here about how few roles, especially major roles, there are in film for elder actors. Our generation doesn't get much representation on what in our youth was called the silver screen. But not... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 21 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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