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ELDER MUSIC: The Night They Invented Champagne

TIME GOES BY DONATION WEEK - LAST DAY Hurray. This is the last day of the 2018 TGB donation drive to help support the increasing costs of maintaining Time Goes By. You can read the details on Monday's post. Whether... Read More...

Published Sun, Feb 18 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 24 February 2018

WHAT IT'S LIKE TO RIDE A FOUR-PERSON BOBSLED This video, shot with a GoPro camera, gives us a glimpse of the excitement involved with bobsledding. This is a four-person bobsled but the camera is at the front so we don't... Read More...

Published Sat, Feb 24 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Trump's Budget and Medicare

(This is wonkier that usual in some places but I think it's important to know and I've tried to keep confusion to a minimum.) Remember when, during the presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that he would never allow cuts... Read...

Published Fri, Mar 02 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady Watches the Academy Awards

Did you watch the Academy Award show last Sunday? Crabby Old Lady did. There wasn't much else on the tube then and it's the sort of program Crabby can watch here and there that doesn't much disturb the reading she's... Read More...

Published Wed, Mar 07 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Do Dreams Change in Old Age?

PERSONAL NOTE: Apparently it is interview season at TimeGoesBy. There are the ongoing Skype chats with my former husband, Alex; the recent print interview with Debbie Reslock at Next Avenue; and today, an audio interview with Jana Panarites of Agewyz...

Published Mon, Mar 12 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Drinking Songs 3

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 18 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Nearly Home

Certainly you must be getting tired of these move updates, but there hasn't been much time to do any serious thinking. You're stuck for awhile with whatever is rolling around inside my mind. It seems like ages since the van... Read More...

Published Mon, May 24 2010 5:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

Health Cost Fears

[EDITORIAL NOTE: LC, who blogs at Retirement Daze, has sent in her photo for the Where Elder Blog feature. You can see it here. And you can find out how to submit a photo of your own blogging place here.]... Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 01 2010 5:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

Happy Fourth of July 2010

I have always lavishly loved fireworks. Sometimes I wonder how they do it; how are all those shapes, sizes and colors so perfectly created and how are the displays synchronized with music? But I have never looked into it -... Read More...

Published Mon, Jul 05 2010 5:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

Reverse Mortgages – Part 3: Finding a Lender

First, two EDITORIAL NOTES about reverse mortgages: Item 1: They are not as complex as some would have you believe, but there are a lot of details and they are not to be taken on lightly. Ninety-five percent of all... Read More...

Published Fri, Jul 09 2010 5:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Joy of a Good Summer Read

Yesterday, Crabby Old Lady explained that she was light on blogging because she was having a load a fun with a great page-turner of a novel she doesn't want to put down. And so it is, as I write this,... Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 13 2010 5:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

GRAY MATTERS: Growing Poverty

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 17 2010 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Payroll Tax Cut Ambivalence

It tells you a lot about our corrupt politics that when Congress passed the payroll tax holiday in December 2010 in the same package as the extension of the Bush era tax cuts primarily benefiting the wealthy, the former was... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 30 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 27 August 2010

This edition of Interesting Stuff is top-heavy with video, silliness and fun, but not entirely. Enjoy. ELDER TELEMEDICINE Only 11 percent of medical schools in the U.S. require geriatric training and there are not now, nor will there be in... Read More...

Published Fri, Aug 27 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

<em>The Longevity Prescription</em> of Dr. Robert Butler: Nurture Your Relationships

As Dr. Robert N. Butler makes clear in Chapter 2 of his book, The Longevity Prescription titled “Nurture Your Relationships,” we should not “underestimate the value of touching, hugging, and sharing...” He is discussing the people he calls “elemental...

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

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