Time Goes By

Elders' Own Universal Health Care Program

That headline is not an announcement of anything new. It is just a reminder that unique among Americans, people 65 and older do have a universal health care program. I'll get back to that at the bottom of this post.... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Welcome to the New Year 2018

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was a popular and well-known poet of the late 19th and early 20th century. I know a lot about her because my mother often quoted her poetry from memory. Wilcox is the person who wrote this that... Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

What Net Neutrality Means to Your Online Life

We have been through this before and here we are again: someone in government wants to make it hard, maybe impossible, for startups and ordinary people to get online without paying a whole lot more money that we do now.... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 27 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elders and Dog Sharing

Day in and day out, there is so much bad news, I decided that in keeping with the holiday tomorrow, we should have a week of light news and commentary. God knows such things as sexual misconduct, tax reform, net... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 22 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

Crabby Old Lady and the Things They Don't Tell You About Getting Old

Crabby Old Lady will be here in a moment but for a few sentences this is me, Ronni. After I wrote today's post, members of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on Friday to kill Net Neutrality. A couple... Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 15 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

GAY AND GRAY: Obama Orders Hospital Visitation Rights For "Unrelated" Partners

Gay and Gray is a monthly column at Time Goes By written by Jan Adams (bio) in which she thinks out loud for us on issues of aging lesbians and gay men. Jan also writes on many topics at her... Read More...

Published Tue, Apr 27 2010 2:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

GRAY MATTERS: Safest Reverse Mortgage

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman (bio) writes the weekly Gray Matters column which appears here each Saturday. Links to past Gray Matters columns can be found here. Saul's Reflections column, in which he comments on news, politics and...

Published Sat, May 01 2010 2:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Have You Lived the Life You Wanted?

Or planned? Or expected? To avoid misunderstanding, let me stipulate up front that new beginnings, new goals, renewed aspirations and purpose come about at any age. But for most of us who hang out at this blog, our working lives... Read More...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Greg Brown and Family

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, Mar 05 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Not Like Them – Those Other Old People (Again)

[EDITORIAL NOTE: This week has been too busy and I ran out of time to write today's post. But that's okay – I could use a day off - and this one, a rerun, caused a good deal of introspection... Read More...

Published Fri, Mar 24 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Australia's Classic 100 Opera Arias (10-1)

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, Feb 07 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 21 September 2013

A NEW SIMON'S CAT – MIRROR, MIRROR Sometimes I think Simon's Cat is getting stale but he's become an internet institution now and a part of my online life. DISCUSSING THE DIVINE COMEDY WITH DANTE Three Chinese artists, Dai Dudu,... Read More...

Published Sat, Sep 21 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Why There is No Cure or Prevention for Cancer

More than half a century ago, when I was somewhere around age 20, I worried a lot about cancer. I was terrified of it in the way of people who are not old enough yet to have become sanguine about... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 08 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

LAGNIAPPE: A Woman's Solution to Gun Violence

On Saturday I asked if readers would be interested In a single “interesting stuff” item on Tuesdays and Thursdays since I no longer write full blog posts on those days and I often have more interesting stuff than there is... Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 06 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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