January 2018 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

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...

Published Fri, Jan 26 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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...

Published Wed, Jan 31 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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...

Published Sat, Jan 06 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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.....

Published Fri, Jan 12 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Encouraging News: U.S. Cancer Death Rate Has Dropped. Again.

Here's something I didn't know about cancer and I'll bet you didn't know either until now: ”...the lifetime probability of being diagnosed with the disease is slightly higher for men than for women, with adult height accounting for about...

Published Wed, Jan 17 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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...

Published Mon, Jan 22 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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...

Published Sun, Jan 28 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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