Time Goes By

Elderbloggers Win Trips to AARP's Orlando@50+ Event

At the end of this month, from 30 September through 2 October, AARP holds its annual gathering of members in Orlando, Florida. Normally, I wouldn't take notice (I'm not much for crowds of 25,000 or airplane rides under current flying... Read More...

Published Fri, Sep 10 2010 5:34 AM by TIME GOES BY

GRAY MATTERS: Wiggling Out of Health Care Reform

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, Sep 11 2010 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Midterm Election Day 2010

For awhile there, I thought this day would never arrive. I'm sure my blood pressure will drop 25 points just on relief from nasty political ads. I voted by mail a couple of weeks ago and now await the results.... Read More...

Published Tue, Nov 02 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

More of Where We Blog

Elderblogger Marcia Mayo has sent a photo of her computer workplace. You can see it here. You can find a list of other elderbloggers' work spaces here and get instructions here for including a photo of your blogging place. And... Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 09 2010 5:35 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

For Younger TGB Readers: Obamacare Enrollment Begins

If you are 64 or younger, today's post is for you. At last. Whether Senator Ted Cruz likes it or not, on 1 January 2014, Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act or ACA) goes into effect. So that eligible people can... Read More...

Published Thu, Sep 26 2013 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

INTERESTING STUFF – 13 February 2016

WHAT JOHN KASICH TOLD ELDERS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE The Ohio governor is not the mild-mannered moderate the media has been promoting since his surge into a second-place win in New Hampshire last Tuesday. Clare Malone, writing at fivethirtyeight.com is representative...

Published Sat, Feb 13 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Gift of Life - Elder Organ Donation

Did you know that old people can be organ donors? I didn't. Until recently. I had just assumed that after a certain age (I never put any thought to what the cutoff would be), one's heart, lungs, pancreas, kidneys, corneas,... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 29 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 19 March 2016

MY GAL, ROSEMARIE Rosemarie and Ray live only on their two Social Security checks and have no savings. They get by with small pleasures and as Rosemarie's 90th birthday approaches, Ray collects cans to afford a meal out together. Thank... Read More...

Published Sat, Mar 19 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 26 March 2016

AT THE BERNIE SANDERS RALLY IN PORTLAND, OREGON LAST NIGHT This happened. Around the intertubes, it's being called "Birdie Sanders." In the nastiest, dirtiest presidential campaign in my lifetime it was sorely needed - a perfect, refreshing...

Published Sat, Mar 26 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 5 March 2016

A 1950'S TIME CAPSULE A lot of us at this blog are old enough to remember the 1950s in some detail. Reader Nancy Leitz has provided us with a montage of artifacts from that decade from 65 years ago. VOICE... Read More...

Published Sat, Mar 05 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Singing with Willie

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 06 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 20 May 2017

PORTRAITS OF A CENTURY As Senior Planet explains it, Czech Republic photographer, Jan Langer ”...has spent some time comparing images of people when they were young with their 100-year-old selves. His meditation on age is the basis for a thoughtful,....

Published Sat, May 20 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 27 May 2017

BEFORE WE GET STARTED TODAY Yesterday, I posted instructions for John Oliver's direct link to the FCC comment page on the agency's net neutrality changes. In case you missed it, here it is again: To get to the page, go... Read More...

Published Sat, May 27 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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