Time Goes By

ELDER MUSIC: Voyager 1 and 2

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, Nov 21 2010 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF: 25 February 2012

ONE OF THE REASONS A MISS NEW YORK CITY When I first moved to New York in 1967, a taxi driver told me that the best thing about the city is that if you're one in a million, there are... Read More...

Published Sat, Feb 25 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

Lies, Damned Lies and Social Security

Yeah, yeah, I know. Some of you develop instant glazed eye syndrome when I repeatedly harp on the need to preserve Social Security and to flay those who want to kill it. Here I go again. As I keep pointing... Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 20 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

How Do You Want to Live?

In last Monday's post, I told you that I was in Providence, Rhode Island for a conference on “Connected Aging” at the Business Innovation Factory (BFI) and that the overall issue to be addressed was the need for our culture... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Conspiring to Pretend We Are Not Old

EDITORIAL NOTE: Following the Business Innovation Factory conference I attended last week in Providence, Rhode Island, the organizers asked me to write a guest post about my experience with them. You can read it, titled Participatory Design Studio on...

Published Fri, Nov 15 2013 5:39 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Government War on Old People

I dislike slogans that declare war. You know, the war on drugs, the war on poverty. We have all seen how well those have gone and it deprives a word like “war” of its power when we apply it to... Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 05 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Christmas Movies for Elders

More tired than usual one evening last week, I surfed through television channels looking for some mildly distracting entertainment that did not involve reality programs, shopping channels, talent shows or other bottomfeeders of mindrot TV. That's...

Published Mon, Dec 09 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

<em>You're Only Old Once</em>

Did you know that Dr. Seuss wrote a book about being old? It's called You're Only Old Once – a Book for Obsolete Children. The book was published on Theodor Seuss Geisel's 82nd birthday in 1986, and he wrote it... Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 13 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Fixing (Not Destroying) Social Security

As reported here two days ago, a bunch of rich, white men (and two or three equally privileged women) met in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday resulting in a bit more media attention than I had expected. What they reported, mostly,... Read More...

Published Thu, May 17 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Retirement Stories – Part 1

Reporter Floyd Norris, writing in The New York Times on Saturday, had this to say about retiring from the workforce: ”THE retirement dream seems further away for a lot of baby boomers, and they appear to be responding to that... Read More...

Published Mon, May 21 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Toes Up 2010

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, Jan 02 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Letting Myself Off the Hook

For the past few days, I've been wrestling some computer problems to the ground. If you are waiting for an email response from me, I'll get to it as soon as everything is in working order again – before long.... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 30 2009 2:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

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