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The Offensive Politics of Deniability

You probably heard the shockingly racist statement earlier this week made by an adviser to Mitt Romney during a discussion with editors at The Telegraph in London: ”...one [adviser], [reports The Telegraph], suggested that Mr Romney was better placed...

Published Fri, Jul 27 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Ronni Needs a Day Off Musical Interlude

A few things in life have caught up with me and I need some space so I'm taking a day off. Peter Tibbles, our resident musicologist who holds forth here on Sundays, has made that easy by providing me with... Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 31 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

A Week in Manhattan: Part Two

My work at the Consumer Electronics Show for Senior Planet was done on Thursday and I moved from the hotel to stay with friends on the upper west side near 72nd Street. Barry and Wendl Kornfeld have what is considered... Read More...

Published Wed, Jul 02 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: 1955 Again

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, Jul 06 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady and Retirement Coaches

Did you know that 11,000 people in the United States retire from the workforce every day? Crabby Old Lady doesn't know if that's true but it's what people who call themselves retirement coaches tell her. Whether the number is real... Read...

Published Thu, Jul 10 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Great American Freak Show

On Wednesday night, following President Obama's release of his non-legal, long-form Certificate of Live Birth, Jon Stewart, his sidekick Jason Jones and Stephen Colbert each pleaded – down on their knees in all but fact - with Donald Trump to... Read...

Published Fri, Apr 29 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Killing Bin Laden

I had other plans for this blog today, but it seems there is nothing else to think about but the death of Osama bin Laden. It was almost funny early Monday morning when I checked the day's headlines. The first... Read More...

Published Tue, May 03 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: New Blues-ish Women

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, May 15 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER POETRY INTERLUDE: Old Folks Laugh

Maya Angelou, who died earlier this year at age 86, seems to have been beloved by all. She was a wise woman - wise, I think, even as a young-ish woman. There are a couple of things she said somewhere... Read More...

Published Thu, Aug 07 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Tyranny of “Still”

Last week, a news anchor was interviewing 74-year-old Tom Hayden on one of the cable news channels. I wasn't paying attention so I don't recall which channel nor why he was being interviewed but the anchor's introduction certainly caught my...

Published Mon, Aug 11 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elders, Sex and HIV/AIDS

Do you know that according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in 2011, people aged 50 and older accounted for 24 percent (7,771) of the estimated 32,052 AIDS diagnoses in the United States that year? That would be “diagnoses”... Read More...

Published Fri, Aug 15 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Holiday Art Tour – Year Two

Unbeknownst to me when I moved to Lake Oswego two years, the town has a large and rich commitment to public art – in particular, sculpture in the Gallery Without Walls program. And by god, it shows on nearly every... Read More...

Published Mon, Sep 03 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elder Services in Your Town - Follow Up

Our experiment two days ago in holding a TGB open forum or what might be called a reader-to-reader feedback day on a specific issue appears to be a rousing success. The question of the day, from SusanG, was ”...what senior... Read More...

Published Thu, Sep 18 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Preventing Falls on the First Day of Fall

Depending on who's talking, today is the first day of fall or tomorrow is the first day of fall. The day has to do with the tilt of the earth, northern and southern hemispheres, daylight savings time and Oh, never... Read More...

Published Mon, Sep 22 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: September 16