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Crabby Old Lady and Intimations of Email's Death

Crabby Old Lady has been reading it for several years: that she is hopelessly out of touch to prefer email to social media, texting, etc. and she will soon be out of luck anyway because email is dead - it... Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 03 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

In-Laws, Outlaws and Granny Flats

We have been talking a lot this past week or so about housing – home maintenance, home safety, decorating, updating, painting and all. There is also, in our awful economic times a question, perhaps, of doubling up. Parents may need... Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 22 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Gay Marriage Complexities

Gay and Gray is a monthly column at Time Goes By written by Jan Adams (bio) in which she thinks out loud for us on issues of aging lesbians and gay men. Jan also writes on many topics at her... Read More...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: <em>Summertime</em>

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, Aug 12 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Van the Man

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, Jun 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

ELDER MUSIC: 1957 Again

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, Aug 03 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Becoming Your Parents

Remember, when you were a little kid, vowing NEVER to do THAT with your kids when you grew up? As it turned out, I had no children so I didn't get to test that particular pledge but there are a... Read More...

Published Tue, Aug 28 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF: 1 September 2012

EDITORIAL NOTE: This the Interesting Stuff post meant for last Saturday when, instead, I had a mini-fit over Mitt Romney's apparent birther conversion. Events move quickly in our 21st century world and one or two of these may be slightly... Read More...

Published Sat, Sep 01 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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Crabby Old Lady and Intimations of Email's Death

In-Laws, Outlaws and Granny Flats

Gay Marriage Complexities

ELDER MUSIC: <em>Summertime</em>

ELDER MUSIC: Van the Man

No, Humans are NOT Living Longer than in the Past

ELDER MUSIC: 1957 Again

Becoming Your Parents

INTERESTING STUFF: 1 September 2012

James Hillman on Why We Age

The Rest of My Life

Kicking the Bucket List

ELDER MUSIC: Marty Robbins

GAY AND GRAY: "Salvaging the Old"

Aging in Place – Your Town