November 2016 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

Dilemma: Finding a Primary Care Physician

THE PROBLEM About a month ago, I woke one morning with a mystery malady: randomly placed aches on the front, sides and back of my torso in about half a dozen specific locations which change from day to day. These... Read More...

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

Saving Medicare and Contacting Congress

EDITORIAL NOTE: This is a nuts-and-bolts post pulling together some information we are going to need before long. I know some readers don't want any more politics, but emboldened Republicans are hard bent on killing Medicare and they want to... Read...

Published Mon, Nov 28 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Classical Gas Goes Forth

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, Nov 27 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 26 November 2016

TWO FRIENDS FIND SOMETHING IN COMMON There are all kinds of reasons to feel ambivalent about Amazon.com but this is not one of them. TGB reader Tom Delmore sent this Amazon television commercial – images and an idea we need... Read More...

Published Sat, Nov 26 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Happy Thanksgiving 2016, Everyone

Some of us may have worried a bit about the outcome during the presidential election campaign but I doubt many – and certainly not me – could bring ourselves to deep-down, really believe our country would be where it is... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 23 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Medicare Part B Premium Increase and Normalizing *

There is a spiral-bound notebook on my desk where I keep a running list of ideas for future TimeGoesBy posts. Some of them are terrible ideas I never use (well, mostly). Others are mainstays – such things as updates or... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 21 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: 1916

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, Nov 20 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 19 November 2016

EDITORIAL NOTE Wow – it's been a hard slog to get through this past week, hasn't it. As a result, I wasn't paying as much attention as usual to collecting items for this post. Given what I was spending most... Read More...

Published Sat, Nov 19 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Medicare in Peril

Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan has wanted to privatize Medicare ever since he first went to Congress 18 years ago. Now, with a new president on deck, he sees his chance. And just in case that “privatize” word feels a... Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 18 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Advice for Living in an Autocracy

Jan Adams, who keeps her own blog – never more appropriately titled than now, Can It Happen Here? - left this message on Monday's post: ”So glad that TGB will be here, NOT normalizing this catastrophe. Many of us may... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 16 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

John Oliver on the 2016 Presidential Election

This is not the usual quadrennial shift in politics we're having in the United States. It is a new world. Everything is upside down. There is nothing we can count on. All we are accustomed to is up for grabs.... Read More...

Published Tue, Nov 15 2016 5:05 AM by TIME GOES BY

An Elder's Notes on the New World Order

We often talk about how time speeds up as we grow older. It's true. Almost every morning when I brush my teeth, I look in the mirror and think, “Didn't I do this just a few minutes ago?” It feels... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 14 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Singing with Van

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, Nov 13 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 12 November 2016

80-YEAR-OLD CHINESE FASHION MODEL DESHUN WANG The New York Times tells us this guy, Deshun Wang, is known as “China's hottest grandpa” and, indeed, he is a charmer, hard to resist. Take a look. Read the rest of the story... Read More...

Published Sat, Nov 12 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

I Will be in Mourning for Awhile

Some people want those of us who are horrified at the result of the Tuesday election to get out and begin changing things. Right now. Start a movement. March. Get busy turning this around. Many are doing this in cities... Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2016 5:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

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Dilemma: Finding a Primary Care Physician

Saving Medicare and Contacting Congress

ELDER MUSIC: Classical Gas Goes Forth

INTERESTING STUFF – 26 November 2016

Happy Thanksgiving 2016, Everyone

Medicare Part B Premium Increase and Normalizing *

ELDER MUSIC: 1916

INTERESTING STUFF – 19 November 2016

Medicare in Peril

Advice for Living in an Autocracy

John Oliver on the 2016 Presidential Election

An Elder's Notes on the New World Order

ELDER MUSIC: Singing with Van

INTERESTING STUFF – 12 November 2016

I Will be in Mourning for Awhile