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Do You Live in a Good Aging-in-Place Community?

For years in repeated surveys, 89 or 90 percent of people polled say they want to “age in place.” Most frequently, that phrase means they want to stay in the homes where they currently live until they die or, at... Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 07 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Letters

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 07 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Confessions of a Late-Age Coward

”When I was three years old during World War II, Mom sent me to nursery school. She walked me the four blocks down the hill from our house where she handed me over to the bus driver. He let me... Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 11 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The TGB Interview: BETTY WHITE

About 25 years ago, when I was working on The Barbara Walters Specials, we interviewed actor Betty White at her home in Los Angeles. The first thing you notice is that needlepoint is everywhere – pillows, cushions, seat covers, wall... Read More...

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

Independence Day 2011

Two hundred thirty-five years ago, the 13 colonies issued their Declaration of Independence from the King of England. The most important and stirring passage of that document is this: ”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are... Read...

Published Mon, Jul 04 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Trios

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 21 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Good, Humane News From Medicare

Yeah, yeah, I know you feel like you've had more than enough from me about Medicare over the past ten days. But this is big-deal, good news you need to know. On Tuesday, the Obama administration announced a proposed settlement... Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 25 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF: 16 July 2011

Interesting Stuff is a weekly listing of short takes and links to web items that have caught my attention; some related to aging and some not, some useful and others just for fun. You are all encouraged to submit items... Read More...

Published Sat, Jul 16 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Blog Friends – Preface

Again today, no real blog post. I spent a most delightful afternoon yesterday with Marcia Mayo who contributes a lot of fine stories to The Elder Storytelling Place and runs her own blog at Well Aged With Some Marbling. Here... Read More...

Published Wed, Jul 20 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Super Sad True Elder Love Story

On the last day of 2014, 95-year-old Eddie Harrison died alone in a hospital bed three weeks after his wife, Edith Hill, was removed from their home in Alexandria, Virginia, and taken to Florida. It didn't need to be that... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 02 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Is It a Cold or is It Flu?

As soon as fall arrives each year, I am first in line for a flu shot. On the one occasion I missed it in the past 25-30 years, I got so sick I could barely crawl out of bed for... Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 06 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 10 January 2015

JE SUIS CHARLIE Let's take a moment at the start of this blog post today to honor the people who were slaughtered by terrorists in Paris this week. There have been many fine tributes to the brave souls of Charlie... Read More...

Published Sat, Jan 10 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Summer in the Suburbs

By no means am I gloating, but while so many in the U.S. swelter this summer, the weather in northwest Oregon is delightful – mostly mid-70s F during the day, mid-50s at night. There have been occasional 80-plus degree days,... Read More...

Published Thu, Aug 11 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

There is No Shame in Getting Old

Not long ago, Marian Van Eyk McCain of elderwomanblog alerted me to a story at Huffington Post by 93-year-old Rhoda P. Curtis. She writes about our ageist society and some elders' fear of aging related to shame they feel about... Read More...

Published Mon, Aug 15 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady: Dead or Alive?

This has been a disastrous holiday season for Crabby Old Lady. Not the holidays themselves; just everything else. To give you an idea, the least of it is that her heating has not worked since Christmas. It is finally being... Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 07 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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