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Having THAT Conversation With Elders

You would be amazed at how many emails I receive with links to instructions for how to have “that” conversation with aging parents. You know, the one(s) about the future: should the parent sell the house, move to a smaller... Read More...

Published Tue, Dec 02 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF: 3 November 2012

AN EXTRA HOUR OF SLEEP TONIGHT Yes, it's that time of year again – Daylight Savings Time is ending. So turn back your clocks tonight before you go to sleep and get that hour back you lost in the spring.... Read More...

Published Sat, Nov 03 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Is It a Cold or is It Flu?

As soon as fall arrives each year, I am first in line for a flu shot. On the one occasion I missed it in the past 25-30 years, I got so sick I could barely crawl out of bed for... Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 06 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: 1971

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, Mar 01 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

GRAY MATTERS: Learning

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, Jan 02 2010 2:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

A Podcast in Which I am Interviewed – Part 1

That is, interviewed for my “wisdom and wit” according to the podcaster. She's very kind but if you believe that... My vacation continues - made easy as items keep turning up for which others have done the heavy lifting leaving... Read More...

Published Wed, Aug 31 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

No Room at the Inn for a Cat

Although the Maine house closing is not until 17 May, the moving company will be loading Crabby's household goods on 12 May so that they will be delivered to Lake Oswego within a few days of her arrival on 18... Read More...

Published Tue, Apr 13 2010 2:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

A TGB EXTRA: John Oliver Takes on Donald Trump

You're right. Time Goes By is not usually published on Tuesday but sometimes I make an exception, as I did last week, with a section called “Lagniappe.” Today's exception, however, is too serious for such a light-hearted title – so,... Read More...

Published Tue, Mar 01 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Good OLD Rock and Roll

Don't you love it when someone or something makes you suddenly laugh out loud. Alan Ginocchio who blogs at The Cyberspace Dawdler did that on Sunday when he sent me a link to the video below and I've been laughing... Read More...

Published Tue, Mar 16 2010 2:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

Bringing an Old Woman to Tears and...

...why I'm telling you about it. I had planned to write about sex today - that would be fun - but technology and the people assigned to handhold those of us who are unschooled in the ones and zeroes of... Read More...

Published Fri, Jun 05 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 13 June 2015

102 YEAR OLD RECEIVES DEGREE *** STOLE FROM HER In 1937, the *** refused to award Ingeborg Rapoport the PhD she had earned for her studies of diphtheria because she is Jewish. Last month, professors from Hamburg University visited Ms.... Read More...

Published Sat, Jun 13 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elders Coping with Summer Heat

One of the terrific things about living in the Willamette Valley of northwest Oregon is the summer weather. Generally, the temperature doesn't reach its high point until about 4PM and within an hour or two of that, the sun goes... Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 10 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 20 June 2015

[PERSONAL NOTE: Today's Interesting Stuff is so different from the usual I just want to let you know that someone else has not hijacked the page. It is much longer that most weeks not because there are more items –... Read More...

Published Sat, Jun 20 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Ageist Politics

As the debate on the fiscal cliff was winding down toward the deadline earlier this week, Representative Steve LaTourette (R–OH) is said to have told his Congressional colleagues: “We should not take a package put together by a bunch of... Read More....

Published Fri, Jan 04 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Have You Lived the Life You Wanted?

Or planned? Or expected? To avoid misunderstanding, let me stipulate up front that new beginnings, new goals, renewed aspirations and purpose come about at any age. But for most of us who hang out at this blog, our working lives... Read More...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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