Time Goes By

Old/Young Friendship

It's hard to keep up these days and it is worrisome how Trump's daily eruptions leave so little time to spend with stories, books, music, ideas and people whose thoughts and ideas help explain the world, expand our minds and... Read More...

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

INTERESTING STUFF – 25 March 2017

ODE TO FORGETFULNESS This is all too familiar to me and probably to many of you too. Comedian Mack Dryden, who used to write for Bill Maher, has a whole lot more videos and his website is here. SURPRISINGLY COMPLICATED... Read More...

Published Sat, Mar 25 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

Let's Retire to a Cruise Ship Redux

It's been a rough week here at Time Goes By – mostly troubling stuff about Social Security payments if the government defaults next week, problems with the annual Medicare enrollment period due to the government employee furloughs and hard decisions...

Published Fri, Oct 11 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Seasons - Autumn

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, Jul 17 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 23 July 2016

THE LAST CAROUSEL CRAFTSMEN Remember carousels? I loved them when I was a kid. I still do. I suppose for today's kids they seem tame compared to the thrill rides at big amusement parks. Too bad. They are so beautiful... Read More...

Published Sat, Jul 23 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: 1914

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, Jul 31 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Australian Favorites - Mozart (20-11)

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

AARP to Drop ALEC After Membership Outcry

IMPORTANT UPDATE: When I wrote it late last week, this post was titled, "AARP Sponsors ALEC Conference." As you can see above, circumstances changed quickly but I have decided to publish the story as written then because AARP looms large......

Published Mon, Aug 08 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Old and Living Alone - Or Not

According to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data, the percentage of people age 65 and older living alone increased from six percent in 1900 to 29 percent in 1990. And then it declined to 26 percent... Read More...

Published Wed, Mar 01 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elders' Tough Decisions

Some of you may recall late last year when I told you about, Travels with Epicurus, a lovely little book about living a fulfilled old age written by philosopher Daniel Klein. In his introduction Klein explains why, at age 72,... Read More...

Published Mon, Aug 19 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

How to Accept Our Aging Bodies – Part 1 of 2

As, over the past months my weight loss program, reinforced by the daily workout routine, has borne fruit in greatly reduced body size, I have been thinking about the changes age brings to our bodies. That reminded of a blog... Read More...

Published Thu, Sep 12 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Growing Old in a New World

Last Saturday afternoon, I listened to the final episode of Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion, ended now after 42 years of weekly broadcasts. The show had been recorded the evening before at the Hollywood Bowl and President Barack Obama called...

Published Wed, Jul 06 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 30 December 2017

ELDER UPTOWN FUNK Canadian TGB reader doctafil alerted us to this video by a group of elders in Sarnia, Ontario. They call themselves the Landmark Village Players (after the name of their retirement community) and what they have done here,... Read More...

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

GRAY MATTERS: New Medicare Services (CMS) Administrator

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, Jul 10 2010 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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Old/Young Friendship

INTERESTING STUFF – 25 March 2017

INTERESTING STUFF – 25 November 2017

Let's Retire to a Cruise Ship Redux

ELDER MUSIC: Seasons - Autumn

INTERESTING STUFF – 23 July 2016

ELDER MUSIC: 1914

ELDER MUSIC: Australian Favorites - Mozart (20-11)

AARP to Drop ALEC After Membership Outcry

Old and Living Alone - Or Not

Elders' Tough Decisions

How to Accept Our Aging Bodies – Part 1 of 2

Growing Old in a New World

INTERESTING STUFF – 30 December 2017

GRAY MATTERS: New Medicare Services (CMS) Administrator