January 2016 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

INTERESTING STUFF – 2 January 2016

THE SUM OF OUR LIVES What if in the afterlife, you relive all of your experiences but this time, you experience them grouped together? You’d spend six weeks clipping your nails, for example, then 15 months looking for lost items,... Read More...

Published Sat, Jan 02 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Why There is No Cure or Prevention for Cancer

More than half a century ago, when I was somewhere around age 20, I worried a lot about cancer. I was terrified of it in the way of people who are not old enough yet to have become sanguine about... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 08 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Darlene Costner: The Worst Diet Plan Ever

RONNI HERE: As you know, a long-time contributor of wise and pithy comments to this blog, Darlene Costner, spent the greater part of December in hospital and then rehab after breaking a bone in her back. She returned home a... Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 12 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Give My Regards to Broadway

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, Jan 17 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 23 January 2016

A WOODSTOCK MOMENT Nick Ercoline and Bobbi Kelly had known one another for 10 weeks when, in August 1969, they went off together to the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York. Someone named Burk Uzzle took this photograph of them:... Read More...

Published Sat, Jan 23 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Scarcity of Geriatricians

As I had done when I moved to Portland, Maine in 2006, I looked for a geriatrician when, four years later, I moved to Oregon. With each inquiry in both states, I was told that the doctor's practice was full.... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 29 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

A Poem to Welcome 2016

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote here of a new study from Yale's Becca Levy about how negative beliefs about growing may correlate with later onset of Alzheimer's disease. In case anyone misunderstood, it was not my intention to... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

There is No Holding Back Time

UPDATE - DARLENE'S HOMECOMING: Before I get going on today's post, let me give you this happy update. As many of you know, long-time blogger and TGB participant, Darlene Costner, who turned 90 last year, fell in her home in... Read More...

Published Wed, Jan 06 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Importance of the Latest Old Age Suit

It was way back in 2005 that I first read that airplane manufacturer Boeing, using an “age suit,” was researching changes that could make airline travel easier for elders. The company was probably using a version of AGNES (acronym for... Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 11 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 17 January 2016

COW DUNG PATTIES SELL LIKE HOTCAKES In The Asian Reporter, there was a story recently about the sale of cow dung patties in India. As you probably know, dung is an ancient for of fuel throughout the world. Now, cow... Read More...

Published Sat, Jan 16 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Theme of an Old Woman's Life

The specifics of this story are unlikely to match any of yours but perhaps there is something in your life that provokes a similar longing. It begins at Christmas 69 years ago. I've told this part of the story on... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 22 2016 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

Alive! 55 Plus and Kickin' - Inspired and Inspiring

Ordinarily, I leave anything about music to Peter Tibbles in his Sunday Elder Music column at this blog. Peter's knowledge, with the aid of “assistant musicologist” Norma, is wide and deep. Mine, although I am an appreciator, is haphazard and... Read...

Published Wed, Jan 27 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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