Time Goes By

ELDER MUSIC: Sam Cooke

You never know who you're going to meet on the internet and I came to know Peter Tibbles (bio here) via email over the past couple of years. His extensive knowledge of most genres of music and his excellent taste... Read More...

Published Sun, Apr 25 2010 2:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Goldman Sachs: Criminal or Incompetent?

Did you watch any of the Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday with Goldman Sachs executives? I was packing for my move to Oregon most of the day while it played in the background and I highly recommend it as an... Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 29 2010 2:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

Medicare Open Enrollment: What You Should Know

The annual Medicare Open Enrollment period begins next week on Tuesday 15 October and continues through Saturday 7 December. Among the things you can do during this period are Change from Original Medicare to a Medicare Advantage Plan Switch from... Read...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 28 October 2017

EDITORIAL NOTE: Due to my ongoing computer problems, I haven't read much news this week so I don't have as many items this week, I didn't have time for random web wandering and worst, my safety, backup list of good... Read More...

Published Sat, Oct 28 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Cancer Keeps You Busy

Chores have been piling up and I'm getting behind so this is really a day off for me but I thought I'd make quick mention of a couple of cancer-related surprises. Some of you who have greater experience with this... Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 03 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady and End of Literacy

Okay, maybe Crabby Old Lady is overstating it in that headline, but voice and and tiny little pictographs appear to be taking over human communication at the expense of the written word. It's not just email and texting. When you... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 08 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Making Hearing Aids as Cool as Eyeglasses

A neighbor leaned in close, putting her ear near mine. “Can you hear it?” she asked, referring to her new hearing aid? Yes. Yes, I could hear her hearing aid announcing that it had been inserted correctly. They haven't gotten... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 13 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Wolves

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 19 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 25 November 2017

BEFORE WE GET STARTED TODAY... With the amount of time it takes to be a cancer patient, I haven't kept up with many of the websites and blogs that I used to check regularly so I am grateful to Cop... Read More...

Published Sat, Nov 25 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Amateur Cancer Patient

Aside from a flu now and then, and a mystery illness 40 years ago that was never diagnosed but involved 11 days in hospital, I have never had a serious disease or condition until now. Throughout my adult years, when... Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 01 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady's State of the Union

Today's post isn't precisely about ageing but Crabby Old Lady needs to get some of this off her chest and suspects a lot of you may want to also. Have there ever been so many different things going wrong –... Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 06 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Rethinking Ageism

There has been a surge recently in the number of print media stories about ageism. Two I've seen are important. In November, Joseph F. Coughlin, who is founder and director of MIT’s AgeLab, noted in Time magazine that old people... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 11 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: 1931

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, Dec 17 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 23 December 2017

THE COFFIN CLUB Reader Kathleen Noble send this music video from New Zealand about members of the Kiwi Coffin Club who “cope with death and loss while bringing some fun and personality to their own final journey” says YouTube. U.S.... Read More...

Published Sat, Dec 23 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

A Small New Years Potpourri

During these end-of-year holidays, I've mostly kept it light in these pages and sometimes, too, let others do the telling for me. And so it is again today as we head into 2018. RONNI BENNETT INTERVIEW The senior center in... Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 29 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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