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INTERESTING STUFF – 24 March 2012

Happy weekend, everyone. Ronni here. Today's Interesting Stuff is almost entirely about animals. It was turning out that way so I just went with the flow. There are several birds, a cat, a whole lot of fish – beautiful fish... Read More...

Published Sat, Mar 24 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Misconception That Elders are Stuck in their Ways

Okay, SuzyR and Cathy, you are IT today. I don't mean to pick on you specifically, but something you each said in your comments on yesterday's post needs to be addressed because it is a widely-held myth that must be... Read More...

Published Wed, Mar 28 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Earworms

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 01 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Doris Lessing Dies at Age 94

When a news alert box popped onto my computer screen that Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing had died at her home in London on Sunday, I stopped what I was doing and thought about how I have reached the age... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 18 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

“Honoring” Elders During Older Americans Month

ITEM: The public transportation agency in Portland, Oregon, TriMet, avoids using the word “old” with a hokey euphemism Crabby Old Lady had not heard before moving here. As they explain on their website: "'Honored Citizen' is how TriMet identifies...

Published Tue, May 08 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Some Short Newsie Things Elders Should Know

SANDERS' NEW HEALTHCARE BILL On 9 December, Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders introduced Senate Bill S. 1782, The American Health Security Act of 2013. Healthcare-Now provides a summary of the 189-page legislation – here's the overview...

Published Tue, Dec 17 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Exhausted

ANOTHER IMPORTANT UPDATE to Tuesday's post about health care changes in 2011 in which I stated: “Current [Medicare] Advantage enrollees who wish to join or return to traditional Medicare have 90 days from 1 January to do so.” The time... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 07 2011 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Cover Versions

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, Oct 11 2009 2:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Long Hair and Older Women

Forty-seven-year-old TGB reader, Peggy Race, emailed recently asking about old women and long hair. “I'm getting subtle pressure to cut my long hair,” she wrote. “It is down past my shoulders at the moment and there seems to be some... Read More....

Published Wed, Oct 07 2009 2:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

Vintage TGB: 14 October 2004

[Each Saturday, a vintage story from the Time Goes By archive is published here. They correspond to a date of approximately five years ago – sometimes updated, sometimes not.] In Search of a Quiet Afternoon Last Saturday afternoon, Crabby Old... Read...

Published Sat, Oct 03 2009 2:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Senator Kohl is Taking Your Health Care Reform Questions Right Now

Last week, several other elderbloggers and I were given the opportunity to speak by telephone with aides to Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid about the health care reform bill that is now in mark up with the Senate Finance Committee... Read More...

Published Tue, Sep 29 2009 2:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

GRAY MATTERS: Long Term Care

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman (bio) writes the weekly Gray Matters column which appears here each Saturday. His Reflections column, in which he comments on news, politics and social issues from his perspective as one of the younger members...

Published Sat, Nov 07 2009 2:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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