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THE TGB ELDER GEEK: Working with Your Photos

Virginia DeBolt (bio) writes the bi-weekly Elder Geek column for Time Goes By in which she takes the mystery out of techie things all bloggers and internet users need to know to simplify computer use. She has written several books... Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 03 2009 2:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

Mort Reichek – Octogenarian

One of the hardest things about writing a blog for and about old people is that by definition readers, acquaintances and friends sometimes die. Ten days ago, on 8 November, my friend Mort Reichek died in Florida after a two-week... Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 18 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Hospital at Home

It is not irrational that one of my biggest fears is being in the hospital. People die there. I don't mean that as a too-obvious black joke. I mean, people die there all the time of things they are not... Read More...

Published Fri, Jun 01 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

“Aging is a Triumph, Not a Tragedy”

So spake the great geriatrician, psychiatrist and elder advocate, Robert N. Butler, who died in December 2010. According to his biographer, W. Andrew Achenbaum, he helped “...to transform the study of aging from a marginal specialty into an intellectually...

Published Wed, Sep 04 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: The Songs of Gerry Goffin and Carole King

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, Jul 13 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

MENTAL DOODLES: Memory, The Line and Mystery

EDITORIAL NOTE: Since sometime in 2003 when I first began thinking about creating this blog, I have kept a notebook, a journals if you will or maybe it is what used to be called a commonplace book - now a... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 23 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Quick and Easy Blog Post

An old friend, Jim Stone, is visiting for a few days so posting will be light and brief this week. Yesterday, we drove up to Mt. Hood for lunch at Timberline Lodge – about an hour-and-a-half from home. You may... Read More...

Published Tue, Aug 27 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Post-Op Day 2

Hello Friends, I hope there is beauty in your day today. I just returned from visiting Ronni in the ICU. She continues to make great gains in her recovery. When I arrived this morning, I must admit my heart skipped... Read More...

Published Thu, Jun 22 2017 4:54 PM by TIME GOES BY

A 27-Year-Old Takes on the World of Elders – Part 1

A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from a young woman inquiring about the possibility of a story at Time Goes By about her company. I generally don't write about commercial enterprises but I was intrigued with the... Read More...

Published Mon, Mar 11 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Grandmother Gene

EDITOR'S NOTE: I am deep in the weeds on the Ryan/Romney plans for Medicare and Social Security and could use some extra time. So here's a very old post I like from the earliest days of this blog, 2004, updated... Read More...

Published Mon, Aug 20 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

What is a Village? Part 2

[Part 1 of What is a Village? is here. It would be helpful to read that first.] One of the reasons it took me so many years to come around to the Villages idea is that for a long time,... Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 27 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Social Security and Elder Women

By mid-afternoon yesterday, I had written most of what I had planned for today's post, but as the hours ticked past, increasing numbers of news and commentary popped into my inbox about the coming attack on Social Security, adding to... Read More...

Published Tue, Dec 21 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

Post Surgery At-Home Assistance Tools

My 20-some staples come out today – three weeks and one day since the surgery and I'm glad for that. The incision looks nicely healed to me and it's time to move on. Still, overall recovery will take much longer.... Read More...

Published Wed, Jul 12 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Those Amazing Elders

Check this out – the first former President Bush skydiving on his 85th birthday last year. Mr. Bush made his first skydive on his 75th birthday and has now promised to do it again on his 90th in 2014. Last... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 15 2010 2:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

Disengagement in Old Age

Readers sometimes send me interesting questions about getting old (as if you think I actually have answers). When they are specific and about topics on which there is a body of knowledge and consensus from experts, I can act as... Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 17 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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