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ELDER MUSIC: Drinking Songs 3

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 18 2018 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady and Kids' Names for Grandparents

TIME GOES BY DONATION WEEK REMINDER We are nearly at the end of the 2018 TGB donation drive to help support the costs of maintaining Time Goes By. Just two more days to go. You can read the donation drive... Read More...

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

ELDER MUSIC: Money

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, Oct 09 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Imperative to Live and to Die

Somewhere among the tiniest twists of our DNA, we are programmed to fear death, to avoid it at all costs and to live. To Live! To live is, borrowing from Star Trek, the prime directive. In addition to the practicality... Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 15 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The World is Utterly Changed Now

I am stunned, shocked, devastated, horrified and frightened. Nothing good will come of this but beyond that I am speechless. This Raging Pencils cartoon arrived overnight from Peter Tibbles and it is as close as I can get right now... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 09 2016 4:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 21 February 2015

THE LADIES Two sisters in their 90s live and work together in their New York City apartment which doubles as their dressmaking shop. As explained at Aeon, "A lifetime ago in their native Hungary, Mimi was a renowned costumer, crafting... Read More...

Published Sat, Feb 21 2015 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

Elder Happiness, S&P Downgrade and Dying in Your Sleep

Three random thoughts that I have given a bit of time over the weekend. HAPPINESS IN OLD AGE A lot of scientific news about health with its mays, mights and maybes is not, in terms of usefulness, worth the effort... Read More...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Help Needed For Interesting Stuff

Some of the items I run on Saturday's Interesting Stuff post come to me from friends and readers. Others arrive via email or I find them in my wanderings around the internet in the days leading up to any given... Read More...

Published Thu, Jun 23 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

<em>The Beauty of Aging</em>

In the United States, beauty and aging are believed not to be related. But that is only because our idea of beauty is so crabbed and stunted – applied only to physical beauty and then to only one kind: youthful.... Read More...

Published Tue, Nov 19 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Beer and Billiards for Healthy Aging

“Active aging” is what they call it. You know, all that bungee jumping, marathon running and climbing high mountains they tell us old people need to do these days to stay healthy. No slacking off with a nap in the... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 17 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Secrets (or Not) to Long Life

Last week in Great Falls, Montana, the world's oldest man died of natural causes. Walter Breuning was 114. Whenever someone reaches great age, usually 100 or more, it is tradition that a reporter from the local newspaper asks how he... Read More....

Published Thu, Apr 21 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Triskaidekaphilia

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 20 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER POETRY INTERLUDE: Since Nine -

By C. P. Cavafy (Translated by Daniel Mendelsohn) Half past twelve. The time has quickly passed since nine o'clock when I first turned up the lamp and sat down here. I've been sitting without reading, without speaking. With whom should... Read...

Published Wed, Apr 25 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Growing Old with Trees

Tom Delmore, a poet himself, sends me poems by others from time to time. Two that have been waiting longer than they should to be posted here are about trees and and the men who spent a lifetime knowing them.... Read More...

Published Fri, Jul 25 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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ELDER MUSIC: Drinking Songs 3

Crabby Old Lady and Kids' Names for Grandparents

ELDER MUSIC: Money

The Imperative to Live and to Die

The World is Utterly Changed Now

INTERESTING STUFF – 21 February 2015

The Tyranny of “Still”

Elder Happiness, S&P Downgrade and Dying in Your Sleep

Help Needed For Interesting Stuff

<em>The Beauty of Aging</em>

Beer and Billiards for Healthy Aging

The Secrets (or Not) to Long Life

ELDER MUSIC: Triskaidekaphilia

ELDER POETRY INTERLUDE: Since Nine -

Growing Old with Trees