Time Goes By

Dementia Fear

Back in the stone age when we were little kids, it was called senility. Probably, like me, you knew an elder or two – perhaps family or maybe a neighbor – who fit that bill. Mostly, in my memory, they... Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 24 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

2014 Medicare and Social Security Trustees' Reports

On Monday, the Medicare and Social Security Trustees released their annual report. Since it is 283 pages long, I'll give you the highlights as transmitted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) Media Center and NBC News. MEDICARE....

Published Tue, Jul 29 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

No, Humans are NOT Living Longer than in the Past

Hardly a day goes when when I don't read that we humans are living longer than ever before. By many years. “...old age now mostly means we have more years on the clock than did our forbearers. A lot more.”... Read More...

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

The Best is Yet to Come

When we are in high school and college, most of us are eager to get on with “real life.” Whether our hopes are modest or grandiose, we anticipate, even daydream about the mark we are going to make on the... Read More...

Published Mon, Aug 04 2014 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

Food and Weight (Again)

Over the weekend, as I caught up with reading email and blog comments I had missed while I was down with the flu last week, I was surprised at how many requests there are for more information about my weight... Read More...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

New Clues for the Internet and You

In 1999, four middle-ish-aged guys who were stars in the development of the still-emergent internet wrote a book about how the internet, an amazing global “conversation” platform whereby individuals could share information at blinding speeds that gave...

Published Tue, Jan 27 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

New Years Day 2013

For a different kind of New Year's Day post, thank you to Nancy Leitz, a long-time contributor of wonderful stories to The Elder Storytelling Place, who sent along this all-too-true list of annoyances for the new year that is now... Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Unspeakable Tragedy at Sandy Hook

By now you undoubtedly have seen and read the accounts of the horrific shootings Friday in Connecticut where 27 were killed including 20 children. It is those children - babies really, kindergartners – who make this latest gun tragedy unbearable.... Read...

Published Mon, Dec 17 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Two Books for Your Heart

You may have noticed that I don't do book reviews. The main reason is that there are so many bad ones related to aging and I don't see the point of writing about a book I threw across the room... Read More...

Published Tue, Sep 27 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

An Open Letter to Arthur S. Brisbane at the NYT

This letter has been sitting on my to-do list since at least last January. I finally settled down yesterday, got it written and emailed it to Arthur S. Brisbane who is the public editor at The New York Times. Dear... Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 25 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Contemplating My Death

Last Saturday on the Interesting Stuff post, I suggested an episode of the BBC World Service radio program, The Forum, about contemplating one's own death. Since listening to it (you can do that here), I haven't been able to let... Read More....

Published Wed, Oct 26 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

REFLECTIONS: On a Holy Night

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 Thu, Dec 24 2009 2:35 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

INTERESTIING STUFF – 19 May 2012

THE KIND OF CENTENARIAN I WANT TO BE In April, Eileen Emeline Ingles of Invercargill, New Zealand, turned 100. Until a year ago, writes reporter Gwyneth Hyndman, she ran to the mailbox every morning. I like what Ms. Ingles says... Read More...

Published Sat, May 19 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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