Time Goes By

Aches and Pains

IMPORTANT UPDATE to Tuesday's post on 2011 health care changes: the provision for Medicare to pay physicians for annual, voluntary, end-of-life counseling has been rescinded. Robert Pear, writing in The New York Times yesterday, explained: “While...

Published Thu, Jan 06 2011 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Interesting Singers

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, Dec 08 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 14 December 2013

TWIN BOYS JUST BORN All it says at the YouTube page is that they don't realize yet they have been born – I'm guessing that means they don't know yet they're in a new environment. It is magical. (Thank you... Read More...

Published Sat, Dec 14 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Some Oddities of Being Old (from 2007)

EDITORIAL NOTE: Time Goes By Sunday Elder Music columnist, Peter Tibbles and his Assistant Musicologist are visiting from Melbourne for a few days. While they are here, in place of new posts are some vintage TGB stories that I kind... Read More...

Published Thu, May 03 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Small Miracles (from 2010)

EDITORIAL NOTE: Time Goes By Sunday Elder Music columnist, Peter Tibbles and his Assistant Musicologist are visiting from Melbourne for a few days. While they are here, in place of new posts are some vintage TGB stories that I kind... Read More...

Published Fri, May 04 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Helping Out Elders in Winter

Although we are finally heading back into the low 40s Farenheit today, like much of the United States for the past week or 10 days, my area has suffered frigid, below freezing weather 24/7. Unusual for northwest Oregon. Perhaps I... Read More...

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

Setting the Stage to Kill Social Security

Congress is in recess for a couple of weeks, but that doesn't mean they, along with their corporate and media handmaidens, aren't busy cooking up ways to kill everything that benefits people who are not rich - old ones like... Read More...

Published Wed, Apr 11 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Cultural Perception of Aging

In a short-lived fit of actually caring about something important, I posted a story yesterday about the Peter G. Peterson-backed plot to kill Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Today, I have fallen back into what Citizen K referred to in... Read...

Published Fri, Jan 08 2010 2:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

Some Minor Cultural Notes to Start the Year

The weather people were all atwitter last Friday about the beginning of a three-day snow storm with “blizzard conditions” up here in Maine. High winds often mean power outages for us, so Ollie the cat and I stocked the cupboard... Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 04 2010 2:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady: The High Cost of Being Old

As you know by now, the chained CPI, about which Crabby Old Lady addressed President Barack Obama yesterday, uses a different calculation that would reduce future Social Security cost-of-living (COLA) increases. Except for the fact that some extremely...

Published Thu, Mar 07 2013 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

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