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Can Sex Keep Old People Mentally Sharp?

There is research piled upon research telling us that to maintain our cognitive function as we grow old, we must exercise, eat lots of fruit and vegetables and keep our minds busy. Now there may be a fourth aid to... Read More...

Published Wed, Mar 09 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

<em>Lighten Your Life Before You Kick the Bucket</em> - Book and Contest

That headline is only part of the title. In full, it is Seven Ways to Lighten Your Life Before You Kick the Bucket and the first thing to know about it is that it is not about bucket lists. (Whew!... Read More...

Published Wed, Mar 16 2016 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

ELDER MUSIC: 1974

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 12 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Some Good News About His Excellency

When the Republican candidate won the U.S. November election for president, I vowed to never utter his name in these pages again (aside from quotations) and to reference him as just an asterisk: *. I have changed my mind. There... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 26 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night?

As you might imagine, in 20 years of researching what it's like to grow old and writing about it for nearly 13 years, I think about death and dying now and then. At the most pratical level, we who are... Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 01 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Lipstick, Powder and Paint

TIME GOES BY 2016 DONATION WEEK ENDS TODAY This is the final day of the 2016 donation campaign to help support the increasing costs of maintaining Time Goes By. You can read the details on Monday's post. Whether you donate... Read More...

Published Sun, Feb 21 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Thank You, Time Goes By Readers

When the donation drive began last week, I would have dismissed the idea – if it had occurred to me - that I would be writing about it today. I thought I would email a personal thank you note acknowledging... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 22 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Bucket Lists and Telling Our Stories

It was the 2007 movie starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman that gave us the phrase – and title of the film - The Bucket List. Since then, bucket lists are a common meme among most Americans - I don't... Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 14 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Specialness of Caregivers

Pretty much everyone works for a living. Some enjoy their jobs, others don't and a few lucky people consider their work a calling, even a mission to which they are fully dedicated. Undoubtedly the Oregon Health & Sciences University Hospital,...

Published Wed, Jul 19 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Shifting Sands of (My) Ageing

Over the weekend a friend who has been active in elder issues for many years said to me that he had mostly stopped reading about ageing, that everything important has been said. We had other things to talk about and... Read More...

Published Mon, Mar 06 2017 5:36 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Bob Covers

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 30 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 7 December 2013

FOUR STAR CHEF SWITCHES TO A SOUP KITCHEN According to this story from KARE-TV, this man gave up a six-figure income as executive chef at one of the finest restaurants in Minneapolis/St. Paul for a Salvation Army soup kitchen. And... Read More...

Published Sat, Dec 07 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Christmas Eve 2014

This year is the hundredth anniversary of several unofficial truces on the western front of World War I at Christmas time in 1914. As Wikipedia explains: ”In the week leading up to the holiday, German and British soldiers crossed trenches... Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 24 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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Can Sex Keep Old People Mentally Sharp?

<em>Lighten Your Life Before You Kick the Bucket</em> - Book and Contest

ELDER MUSIC: Money

The Imperative to Live and to Die

ELDER MUSIC: 1974

Some Good News About His Excellency

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night?

ELDER MUSIC: Lipstick, Powder and Paint

Thank You, Time Goes By Readers

Bucket Lists and Telling Our Stories

The Specialness of Caregivers

The Shifting Sands of (My) Ageing

ELDER MUSIC: Bob Covers

INTERESTING STUFF – 7 December 2013

Christmas Eve 2014