Time Goes By

Elder Taboos – Part 2: Incontinence Products

This blog is one of the few places I've ever found that openly discusses leaky pipes – urinary incontinence – which, some research says, affects about 35 to 45 percent of older women and only slightly fewer men older than... Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 12 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Making Light of Our Mortality

For a long while during the middle years of the 20th century, my great Aunt Edith (see Timeline series about her here) worked as the executive secretary of the Oregon Funeral Directors Association. Undoubtedly, this accounts for my ease with... Read More...

Published Fri, Jun 22 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER PROSE INTERLUDE: The Measure of My Days

Through the nearly two decades I have been studying (or researching or reading or whatever this continuing interest is) aging, I have collected a good-sized library of related books. Mixed among the practical, the journalistic, scholarly and political...

Published Tue, Jun 26 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Social Security Part 2: The Trust Fund

With a few fine exceptions, you would not know from most of the news media – print, television and online – or from Republican politicians that Social Security does not contribute to the deficit and is generally in good shape.... Read More...

Published Wed, Mar 09 2011 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

Retirement Investing Advice (?)

Undoubtedly you see as many financial services commercials on TV, in print and online as I do. In addition, I get dozens of pitches every year to review advice books about retirement investing or to interview so-called experts in the... Read More...

Published Wed, Apr 02 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Possibilities of the Internet

Marc Leavitt keeps a blog, is a regular contributor to The Elder Storytelling Place and is one of those TGB readers who has become an email friend. We live a continent apart so we are unlikely to meet in person... Read More...

Published Tue, Apr 29 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 3 May 2014

GRANDFATHER SURPRISE The man you see in this video is an only child. So is his grown son. Watch his reaction when that son and his daughter-in-law tell him he is going to be a grandfather. THE RACE HORSE ARTIST... Read More...

Published Sat, May 03 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Last Magnificent Movie Queen

The worst part of being sick with a cold is that my brain stops working. And although my body keeps saying, sleep, sleep – sometimes you just gotta get out of bed for awhile. Certainly you know by now that... Read More...

Published Thu, Mar 24 2011 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

Old Age Cold (and More)

Email back-and-forth with friend last Friday while conducting some boring, but necessary personal business: FRIEND: How are you feeling? ME: Awful. Many years ago, a cold remedy company used the slogan, “A summer cold is a different animal.” Hah! NOT...

Published Mon, Mar 28 2011 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

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Elder Taboos – Part 2: Incontinence Products

Making Light of Our Mortality

ELDER PROSE INTERLUDE: The Measure of My Days

Social Security Part 2: The Trust Fund

Retirement Investing Advice (?)

The Possibilities of the Internet

INTERESTING STUFF – 3 May 2014

The Last Magnificent Movie Queen

Old Age Cold (and More)

ELDER POETRY INTERLUDE: The Road Not Taken

ELDER MUSIC: 1952

INTERESTING STUFF: 29 July 2012

Ronni Needs Another Day Off Photo Stream

Traveling By Air While Old

On Loneliness and Old Age