Time Goes By

Hearing Loss Treatment and Medicare

Hearing loss is one of the least attended health problems in the United States. That's just my opinion but take a look at the statistics. According to The New York Times: • Hearing loss affects 45 percent of people age... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 14 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

How Elders and Their Physicians Might Collaborate

The U.S. geriatrician population has been hovering around 7,000 for several years without much change. At the same time, the elder population grows by about 10,000 a day. You see the problem. One reason is that geriatrics is at the... Read More...

Published Fri, May 05 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Republican Plan to Nuke the Internet

[I copied that headline from vanityfair.com because I'm lousy at headlines and “net neutrality” - which is what this is about - sounds boring. But it's important and depending on what happens, it could ruin your internet experience while also...

Published Mon, May 01 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

GRAY MATTERS: Some Basics

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman (bio) writes the weekly Gray Matters column which appears here each Saturday. Links to past Gray Matters columns can be found here. Saul's Reflections column, in which he comments on news, politics and...

Published Sat, Dec 26 2009 2:30 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

Looking Old

When Crabby Old Lady was younger – way younger – it was common among her crowd to remark, when they had partied too hard the night before, that they'd had a preview in the morning mirror of what they would... Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 30 2010 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Bill's Dilemma

Throughout my life, I have appreciated women friends greatly. Most are open to talking about everything together no matter how intimate. In fact, that is the life blood of our connections, isn't it. My women friends have never failed to... Read More...

Published Fri, Aug 20 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

REFLECTIONS: On the Paranoid Style

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 Wed, Jun 16 2010 5:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Saturday Farmer's Market

Anyone who has been reading this blog for more than a few months knows that one of my favorite excursions in Portland, Maine was the Wednesday farmers' market in Monument Square. I liked getting there when it opened at 7AM... Read More...

Published Mon, Jun 14 2010 5:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 11 July 2015

SONG FOR GRATEFUL DEAD'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY It has been half a century since the Grateful Dead first set foot on a stage and over the 4 July weekend, they played their final concerts. Norma, the Assistant Musicologist, sent this video... Read More....

Published Sat, Jul 11 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Toes Up for the First Half of 2015

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, Jul 12 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

It's a 90th Birthday Celebration

Yep. That's right. Darlene Costner is 90 years old today and we're celebrating the beginning of her tenth decade. Can you imagine?! And she's not the only one we will celebrate here this year (the next is a couple of... Read More...

Published Fri, May 29 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Happy 70th Birthday, Peter Tibbles

As you know, around here we like to celebrate a few of those big, round-number birthdays. Today, 16 September, it is Peter Tibbles. In case you have not been reading the TGB Sunday Elder Music column Peter has been writing... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 16 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Welcome to Fall...

...that is, the beginning of autumn today. And welcome again to the annual Time Goes By falls prevention blog post. I know I bang on about this, but it is important, crucial even, and besides, if I don't do it... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 23 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Music of New Orleans Part 3