Time Goes By

How It is to Be Old

Having fallen asleep with the television on a few nights ago, I woke a couple of hours later to the fragment of a sentence just before a commercial began: “...young people wondering how it is to be old.” Sleep for... Read More...

Published Wed, May 07 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

At ESP: My Forever Amber

Although Time Goes By is on haitus this week, there are new stories at The Elder Storytelling Place. Today's is from Lyn Burstine, titled My Forever Amber. Read More...

Published Wed, Mar 20 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Unlock the Car Door With Your Mind

It's amazing what you can find on the internet. Sometimes I need to closely monitor myself so not to fall down a rabbit hole only to awaken as from a dream two hours later, my mind full of way too... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 26 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018

Even though I generally can't understand anything about physics, gravity, black holes and all the other challenging subjects physicist Stephen Hawking studied, I've always read everything I came across about him and somehow, even though he had...

Published Fri, Mar 16 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Growing Old with Long Gray Hair

It was about three-and-a-half years ago that we had a terrific discussion about long hair on elder women. I went back to re-read it over the weekend because I was delighted with this comment that arrived on Saturday from a... Read More...

Published Mon, Apr 29 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

REFECTIONS: On Jobs and the CCC

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman (bio) writes the twice-monthly Reflections column for Time Goes By in which he comments on news, politics and social issues from his perspective as one of the younger members of the greatest generation....

Published Tue, Aug 24 2010 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Notes on Coping with Cancer

You, dear readers - in your generosity in commending my attitude toward this cancer and my “honesty” in writing about it - have given me a lot to think about. The thing is, however, I don't know what else I... Read More...

Published Mon, Aug 28 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Can Sex Keep Old People Mentally Sharp?

There is research piled upon research telling us that to maintain our cognitive function as we grow old, we must exercise, eat lots of fruit and vegetables and keep our minds busy. Now there may be a fourth aid to... Read More...

Published Wed, Mar 09 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elders' Fading Five Senses

On Wednesday's post about striving, a commenter named Jack used a terrific phrase I'd never run into before – at least not in relation to dental ills. He wrote that he is “in the process of outliving his teeth.” TASTE... Read More...

Published Fri, May 08 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Living and Dying: A Love Story

At the bottom of this page is the latest edition of The Alex and Ronni Show – a conversation between me and my former husband, Alex Bennett, that we recorded on Tuesday. Early in the recording, Alex (who lives in... Read More...

Published Fri, Mar 09 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Christmas Eve 2014

This year is the hundredth anniversary of several unofficial truces on the western front of World War I at Christmas time in 1914. As Wikipedia explains: ”In the week leading up to the holiday, German and British soldiers crossed trenches... Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 24 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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