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Dr. Krauthammer's Excellent Doctor's Visit Tips

My friend John Brandt sent me the excellent list below. It is the advice of retired cardiologist, Martin Krauthammer, that will help us get more out of office visits with our doctors. Some items seem obvious, but we don't always... Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 21 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

How It is to Get Old

Don't call me honey. Don't call me sweetie. Don't call me darling or dear. And don't shout in my ear. I can hear what you're saying quite well. I believe that your impudent query Was, Who did you used to... Read More...

Published Tue, Nov 16 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

GRAY MATTERS: Raising the Retirement Age?

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, Nov 20 2010 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elders Living Alone

There was a lot of response yesterday at The New York Times about the living alone story where I was mentioned and many commenters there said that none of us who were interviewed were particularly “quirky” as the headline claims.... Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 24 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Forty-Seven Years Ago Today

EDITORIAL NOTE: Jan Adams, who blogs at Happening Here and usually writes the Gay and Gray column for this blog, is on a terrific trek visiting Hong Kong and Nepal. Before she left, she penned this story about today's sad... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 22 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

What You Can Do to Help Save Social Security

Thanksgiving dinner was a smashing success – a beautiful turkey, all the trimmings and I am, today, properly – ahem, stuffed. Thank you all for your lovely greetings yesterday. Black Friday holds no charms for me. Shopping has never been... Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 26 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

Call Congress Day and Comparative Health Costs

CALL CONGRESS DAY As I noted last week, today is Call Congress Day. The reason is that tomorrow, President Obama's deficit commission (also known as the cat food commission) will issue its final recommendations to reduce the deficit. Commission co...

Published Tue, Nov 30 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

GRAY MATTERS: The Simpson/Bowles Deficit Commission

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, Dec 04 2010 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Contest Winners and Reader Location Check

On Tuesday, readers were given the opportunity to win one of three copies of Tribes of Eden, the new novel by friend of Time Goes By and renowned geriatrician Bill Thomas. “Thomas said he used a post-apocalyptic scenario [in Tribes... Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 06 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Banishing Exercise Guilt

The concern of this blog is the overall idea of getting old. Drilling down a bit, that means “what it is really like” to do so because there is hardly any place to find the truth about it. Among the... Read More...

Published Tue, Apr 10 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 14 April 2012

TEXTING FROM HILLARY It's been all over the web this past week and if you haven't been following the game, you're not having fun: It started as a joke in a bar after seeing a photo - a power shot... Read More...

Published Sat, Apr 14 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

We Grow Eyelashes – Why Not Hair?

Some of you were nice enough to say kind things about my appearance in this photograph taken during the conference I attended at the Business Innovation Factory in Providence, Rhode Island a couple of weeks ago. If you have been... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 20 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Lead Guitarists – Commenters' Choice

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 24 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Proven: Older IS Wiser – and Smarter (from 2006)

EDITORIAL NOTE: Time Goes By Sunday Elder Music columnist, Peter Tibbles and his Assistant Musicologist are visiting from Melbourne for a few days. While they are here, in place of new posts are some vintage TGB stories that I kind... Read More...

Published Tue, May 01 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Hannukah 5774

It is just weird that the first day of Hannukah this year comes on American Thanksgiving day – or vice versa depending on your point of view. The first candle is lit tonight and it is fortunate for tomorrow's meal... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 27 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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