February 2016 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

The Gift of Life - Elder Organ Donation

Did you know that old people can be organ donors? I didn't. Until recently. I had just assumed that after a certain age (I never put any thought to what the cutoff would be), one's heart, lungs, pancreas, kidneys, corneas,... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 29 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: The Oscars

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, Feb 28 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 27 February 2016

PRESIDENT OBAMA WRITES A POST FOR SCOTUS BLOG You cannot have missed the fact that even before Justice Antonin Scalia's body was cold, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the Senate will not fulfill its constitutionally-required duty to...

Published Sat, Feb 27 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

An Elder Bites the Apple

Yesterday, I bit into an apple and heard that satisfying “crack” that happens as the fruit's skin breaks and a bit juice dribbles down the chin. Now, some of you are undoubtedly thinking that this is nothing to write home... Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 26 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

What Have You Learned at This Blog?

Now and then some of us take mention how much we learn from one another at Time Goes By. On the lightest level, without your suggestions, there might not be an Interesting Stuff list on Saturdays. I also wouldn't know... Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 24 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

LAGNIAPPE: The Raging Grannies

Last fall, I inaugurated a new, occasional blog section called Lagniappe which, as S.C. Jones who suggested the name explained, is “Louisiana French for something given as a bonus or extra gift.” I don't usually publish on Tuesdays and Thursdays....

Published Tue, Feb 23 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Thank You, Time Goes By Readers

When the donation drive began last week, I would have dismissed the idea – if it had occurred to me - that I would be writing about it today. I thought I would email a personal thank you note acknowledging... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 22 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Lipstick, Powder and Paint

TIME GOES BY 2016 DONATION WEEK ENDS TODAY This is the final day of the 2016 donation campaign to help support the increasing costs of maintaining Time Goes By. You can read the details on Monday's post. Whether you donate... Read More...

Published Sun, Feb 21 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 20 February 2016

TIME GOES BY 2016 DONATION WEEK REMINDER You have to put up with this donation drive announcement for only one more day, then it will be done. If you missed it, you can read the details of the drive on... Read More...

Published Sat, Feb 20 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Lowering Prescription Drug Prices

TIME GOES BY 2016 DONATION WEEK REMINDER For the first time in the 12 years of this blog's existence, we are conducting a donation drive to help support the increasing costs of maintaining Time Goes By. You can read the... Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 17 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

First Annual Time Goes By Donation Week

I was still working full time when I began developing the idea for Time Goes By. Then, when I unexpectedly withdrew from the workforce in 2004, I simply transferred the energies I had devoted to my (mostly fascinating) jobs over... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 15 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

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, Feb 14 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 13 February 2016

WHAT JOHN KASICH TOLD ELDERS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE The Ohio governor is not the mild-mannered moderate the media has been promoting since his surge into a second-place win in New Hampshire last Tuesday. Clare Malone, writing at fivethirtyeight.com is representative...

Published Sat, Feb 13 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Contest Winners and Crabby Old Lady

WINNERS OF THE WHAT WE GAIN BOOK GIVEAWAY What an amazing response to the Wednesday drawing for a copy of What We Gain as We Grow Older: On Gelassenheit by the well-known German philosopher, Wilhelm Schmid. We heard from a... Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 12 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

<em>What We Gain as We Grow Older</em> - Book and Contest

That is the title of a new book by German philosopher Wilhelm Schmid. I quoted from it last June when I wrote about the value of habit; Schmid includes an entire chapter on that. I was reading an advance copy... Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 10 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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