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INTERESTING STUFF – 3 March 2012

WOMEN'S HEALTH EXPERTS SPEAK OUT After the squeaker of a vote in the Senate this week that did manage to defeat the horrific Blunt Amendment, we definitely need to blow off some steam and this video should do it for... Read More...

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

How to Survive a Hospital Stay

Way back in 1977, on the day I was to begin an exciting new job, I instead wound up in a hospital with, among other symptoms, a high fever and unbearable abdominal pain. Soon after my arrival, I lay on... Read More...

Published Wed, Mar 07 2012 5:42 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Big

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 11 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 24 March 2012

Happy weekend, everyone. Ronni here. Today's Interesting Stuff is almost entirely about animals. It was turning out that way so I just went with the flow. There are several birds, a cat, a whole lot of fish – beautiful fish... Read More...

Published Sat, Mar 24 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Misconception That Elders are Stuck in their Ways

Okay, SuzyR and Cathy, you are IT today. I don't mean to pick on you specifically, but something you each said in your comments on yesterday's post needs to be addressed because it is a widely-held myth that must be... Read More...

Published Wed, Mar 28 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Earworms

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, Apr 01 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Doris Lessing Dies at Age 94

When a news alert box popped onto my computer screen that Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing had died at her home in London on Sunday, I stopped what I was doing and thought about how I have reached the age... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 18 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 7 December 2013

FOUR STAR CHEF SWITCHES TO A SOUP KITCHEN According to this story from KARE-TV, this man gave up a six-figure income as executive chef at one of the finest restaurants in Minneapolis/St. Paul for a Salvation Army soup kitchen. And... Read More...

Published Sat, Dec 07 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Let's Increase Social Security Benefits

Two or three or four years ago or maybe more (you know how hard it is track time in old age when it starts moving so much faster) I first came across the idea that Social Security benefits should not... Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 11 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

INTERESTIING STUFF – 19 May 2012

THE KIND OF CENTENARIAN I WANT TO BE In April, Eileen Emeline Ingles of Invercargill, New Zealand, turned 100. Until a year ago, writes reporter Gwyneth Hyndman, she ran to the mailbox every morning. I like what Ms. Ingles says... Read More...

Published Sat, May 19 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Peter Tibbles' Travel Travails and Salmon Recipe

As regular readers know, Peter Tibbles owns Sundays at this blog where he weekly posts his delightful Elder Music column. But there's more to Peter than music (as if that's not enough) and I think you will enjoy this report... Read More...

Published Wed, May 23 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Has Crabby Old Lady Let Herself Go?

Last week, there was a lot of response to Crabby Old Lady's story about retirement sloth. Most readers seem have embraced sloth as a right of elderhood and Alan G., of the aptly named Cyberspace Dawdler, admitted (with some amount... Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 20 2009 2:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

Vintage TGB: 28 October 2004

[Each Saturday, a vintage story from the Time Goes By archive is published here. They correspond to a date of approximately five years ago – sometimes updated, sometimes not.] A Question of Maturity A week or so ago, Clarence, at... Read More...

Published Sat, Oct 24 2009 2:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Our Plastic Brains – Even in Old Age

Surely you know of Oliver Sachs, the Columbia University professor of neurology and psychiatry. You may have read one or more of his books recounting case studies of people he has treated with, usually, rare brain disorders. Books such as... Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 18 2011 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

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