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ELDER MUSIC: Recent Discoveries
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...
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Sun, Jan 14 2018 5:30 AM
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Unsettling Changes and a Book Giveaway
Two items today – one that is probably close to universal among people past a certain age, and a second that undoubtedly has a more limited audience. Doesn't matter – it's all good. Let's start with CALVIN TRILLIN'S "ALL THUMBS"...
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Mon, Jan 08 2018 5:30 AM
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Early January Cancer Update
When I began chemotherapy in September, six months of treatment sounded like an eternity, not something I needed to think about for a long time. Instead, I reasoned, just show up once a week for the infusion, take the oral... Read More...
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Fri, Jan 05 2018 5:30 AM
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Great Big Fat Good News About Cancer
At first, I wrote this post with a long and winding introduction to the news – this great big fat good news - but that doesn't seem fair so I'm redoing it and adding what had been intro material as... Read More...
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Mon, Jan 22 2018 5:30 AM
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A Funny Little Health Remedy that Actually Works – For Me
Surely you have been hit with a charley horse more than once – that sudden muscle spasm in a leg, arm, foot, hand, fingers or toes that can cause excruciating pain. According to the Mayo Clinic, age increases risk of... Read More...
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Wed, Jan 24 2018 5:30 AM
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ELDER MUSIC: Tony Bennett
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...
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Sun, Jan 28 2018 5:30 AM
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Crabby Old Lady and Protest/Donation Fatigue
But first – we have a winner in Monday's random drawing for a book of essays by Ursula K. Le Guin titled No Time to Spare. The random number generator spoke and Karin Bendel's name came up. The book has... Read More...
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Fri, Jan 19 2018 5:30 AM
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INTERESTING STUFF – 6 January 2018
A KID'S DESCRIPTION OF OLD PEOPLE TGB reader, Marian Methner, sent this very short story about growing old and her grandson, Zeb. “My mother, who was quite 'wrinkled' would often remind me to 'use moisturizer,'” wrote Marian. “I too...
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Sat, Jan 06 2018 5:30 AM
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"Let Age Be Age"
Not meaning to sound too much like a grinch, finally these endless holidays are done and good riddance. They last nowadays forever – my first Christmas catalog arrived in August – and one of the things I have come to... Read More...
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Wed, Jan 03 2018 5:30 AM
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What It's Really Like to Get Old
Here are the two winners in the random drawing announced Monday for Malcolm Nance's book, Defeating ISIS: Who They are, How They Fight, What They Believe. Two days later, I rolled the handy-dandy, online random number generator and... Drum roll.....
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Fri, Jan 12 2018 5:30 AM
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Sorry: No Interesting Stuff Today
It's Friday evening as I write this and I'm just now home from the two nights in the hospital. Cancer related, of course. It was due to a repeat performance of November when I had extremely low red blood cell... Read More...
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Sat, Jan 13 2018 5:30 AM
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How Old is Old?
Almost universally, surveys reveal that people believe old age begins at some time beyond the age they are at the moment. This is particularly so of age deniers but many of the rest of us congratulate ourselves, if only privately,... Read More...
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Mon, Jan 29 2018 5:30 AM
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Elder Job Search: What Should Be Versus Reality
I have been banging on against ageism in general and age discrimination in the workplace for nearly 15 years on this blog without making even a minor dent. But neither has anyone else, even people with a much longer reach... Read More...
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Wed, Jan 31 2018 5:30 AM
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ELDER MUSIC: Classical Gas Part 9
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...
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Sun, Jan 21 2018 5:30 AM
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Senior Discounts: A Rite of Passage Redux
EDITORIAL NOTE: This week got so busy I couldn't find time for today's story so I have resurrected a post from the second year of TGB, 11 November 2005, about senior discounts. In the penultimate paragraph, I mention that I... Read More...
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Fri, Jan 26 2018 5:30 AM
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