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Thank You for Being Such Good Blog Commenters

An increasing number of websites – Reuters, Popular Science, the Chicago Sun-Times among them - have turned off their online comments sections. According to a story at World News Publishing Focus, one reason is ”The arduous task of moderating the... Read...

Published Fri, Dec 05 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Election Day 2014: Vote, Dammit

Pretty much all the polls are telling us that with today's vote, the Republicans will become the majority party in the Senate thereby controlling both houses of the Congress of the United States. Here's the thing about polls: notwithstanding Dewey...

Published Tue, Nov 04 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: 1958

This is an on-going series featuring the music of a particular year. These aren't the Top 10, Top 40 or Top anything, they're just tunes I selected from the year with no apparent logic behind it. What happened in 1958?... Read More...

Published Sun, Jul 03 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 5 April 2014

LE WEEK-END This British film is the story of Nick and Meg Burrows, a pair of academics, who spend the 30th anniversary of their no-longer-wonderful marriage in Paris. Le Week-End is funny and sad and poignant and lovely – think... Read More...

Published Sat, Apr 05 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

A New York Day with Granddaughter Hannah

There is a lot I want to accomplish in today's blog post so I hope you will stick with me until the end – it will be immensely worth it, I promise. First, a big thank you and many warm... Read More...

Published Wed, Apr 09 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: 1953 Again

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, Jun 08 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Ave Atque Vale, Gore Vidal

For me, the unbearable thing about getting old is being forced to live on without the friends who are wretched enough to leave me behind when they go. One of them did that this week when, on Tuesday evening, Gore... Read More...

Published Thu, Aug 02 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 14 June 2014

IMPORTANT EDITORIAL NOTE: I do my best to properly credit the people who send Interesting Stuff items published here and I know I have said I will link to your blog when you have one. But you've got to tell... Read More...

Published Sat, Jun 14 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Ageism at the Oscars

Did you watch the Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night? Not having seen most of the movies, I hadn't intended to do so plus, it feels like a anachronism these days, watching famous rich people applaud themselves. But then I recalled... Read More....

Published Wed, Feb 29 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER POETRY INTERLUDE: Forgetfulness

Now and then on Thursdays, particularly when I need some extra time, I will post a poem I like related to aging. Today, it is from Billy Collins - Forgetfulness The name of the author is the first to go... Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 16 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Post-Election Woes

In ruminating on the election, Crabby Old Lady finds herself appalled that so many politicians are nothing better than embarrassing. Can't we just say it. Christine O'Donnell – still a girl at 41 – has the intellectual underpinnings of a... Read...

Published Fri, Nov 05 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: St Louis Blues

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, Apr 05 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Writers and Age

In 1985, the American poet Stanley Kunitz said he had found ...more rewards and compensations in my mid-eighties than I ever expected. “Just to be rid of the hang-ups and anxieties of your youth – that in itself is a... Read More...

Published Mon, Apr 06 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: 1950s – Pre-Heartbreak Hotel, Part 1

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, Jan 31 2010 2:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Let's Retire on a Princess Cruise

The president has been particularly chatty lately. Last week, he gave the State of the Union Address and sparred with Republicans and then tried the latter with Democratic senators this week. I tuned out during his third public discussion yesterday.....

Published Thu, Feb 04 2010 2:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

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