Time Goes By

Cancer Treatment: It's Always Something (and a Book Giveaway)

In a repeat from last November, I appeared at the clinic for my Wednesday chemotherapy infusion last week but when the usual blood tests came back, my red cell count was too low for treatment. The infusion was canceled and... Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 15 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Recent Discoveries

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, Jan 14 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Sorry: No Interesting Stuff Today

It's Friday evening as I write this and I'm just now home from the two nights in the hospital. Cancer related, of course. It was due to a repeat performance of November when I had extremely low red blood cell... Read More...

Published Sat, Jan 13 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

What It's Really Like to Get Old

Here are the two winners in the random drawing announced Monday for Malcolm Nance's book, Defeating ISIS: Who They are, How They Fight, What They Believe. Two days later, I rolled the handy-dandy, online random number generator and... Drum roll.....

Published Fri, Jan 12 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Housekeeping Notes for This Blog

On Saturday, TGB reader and frequent commenter, Simone, left this message in answer to a comment from Ana on a 2008 post about being old without children: ”Ronni has set the standard here. It's a safe place, and we all... Read More...

Published Wed, Jan 10 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Unsettling Changes and a Book Giveaway

Two items today – one that is probably close to universal among people past a certain age, and a second that undoubtedly has a more limited audience. Doesn't matter – it's all good. Let's start with CALVIN TRILLIN'S "ALL THUMBS"...

Published Mon, Jan 08 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Toes Up in 2017 - Part 2

[Toes Up in 2017 - Part 1 is here.] 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... Read More...

Published Sun, Jan 07 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 6 January 2018

A KID'S DESCRIPTION OF OLD PEOPLE TGB reader, Marian Methner, sent this very short story about growing old and her grandson, Zeb. “My mother, who was quite 'wrinkled' would often remind me to 'use moisturizer,'” wrote Marian. “I too...

Published Sat, Jan 06 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Early January Cancer Update

When I began chemotherapy in September, six months of treatment sounded like an eternity, not something I needed to think about for a long time. Instead, I reasoned, just show up once a week for the infusion, take the oral... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 05 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

"Let Age Be Age"

Not meaning to sound too much like a grinch, finally these endless holidays are done and good riddance. They last nowadays forever – my first Christmas catalog arrived in August – and one of the things I have come to... Read More...

Published Wed, Jan 03 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Welcome to the New Year 2018

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was a popular and well-known poet of the late 19th and early 20th century. I know a lot about her because my mother often quoted her poetry from memory. Wilcox is the person who wrote this that... Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

EDLER MUSIC: Toes Up in 2017 - Part 1

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 31 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 30 December 2017

ELDER UPTOWN FUNK Canadian TGB reader doctafil alerted us to this video by a group of elders in Sarnia, Ontario. They call themselves the Landmark Village Players (after the name of their retirement community) and what they have done here,... Read More...

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

A Small New Years Potpourri

During these end-of-year holidays, I've mostly kept it light in these pages and sometimes, too, let others do the telling for me. And so it is again today as we head into 2018. RONNI BENNETT INTERVIEW The senior center in... Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 29 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Looking Back at 2017: Trump and Cancer

From any point of view, the year 2017 was one of the most momentous in my life. The last time I lived through something of as much significance, I think, would be in 1992, when I moved to Sacramento for... Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 27 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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