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  • GAY AND GRAY: Assassination Scars

    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...

  • Help Needed For Interesting Stuff

    Some of the items I run on Saturday's Interesting Stuff post come to me from friends and readers. Others arrive via email or I find them in my wanderings around the internet in the days leading up to any given... Read More...

  • Mental Health Day 5

    Tom Delmore of crowsperch sent this little image. I think that for almost everyone it takes a lifetime to not only understand that what others think of us doesn't matter but to learn the greater truth, how you see yourself... Read More...

  • <em>The Beauty of Aging</em>

    In the United States, beauty and aging are believed not to be related. But that is only because our idea of beauty is so crabbed and stunted – applied only to physical beauty and then to only one kind: youthful.... Read More...

  • ELDER NEWS: 11 November 2009

    Several items of interest to elders today, and let's start with the holiday – it is Veterans' Day, the time we set aside to honor the men and women who put their lives at risk in combat for the rest... Read More...

  • Nancy Lazinsky at ESP

    I'm on hiatus until Monday 19 September. The Elder Storytelling Place continues as will Interesting Stuff on Saturday and Peter Tibbles' Elder Music on Sunday. At The Elder Storytelling Place today, Nancy Lazinsky: My Crosley Read More...

  • ELDER MUSIC: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

    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...

  • The Secrets (or Not) to Long Life

    Last week in Great Falls, Montana, the world's oldest man died of natural causes. Walter Breuning was 114. Whenever someone reaches great age, usually 100 or more, it is tradition that a reporter from the local newspaper asks how he... Read More....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Post-Op Day 1

    Good evening to all on Team Ronni, I hope this finds you well. After yesterday's marathon of a day, it was nice to call Ronni's nurse this morning to find that Ronni was resting well as she had been all... Read More...

  • It's Ronni Here

    I am not JUST sitting up in bed, anymore, folks. I'm typing, putting words on paper so to speak and my brain is working fairly well. That wasn't always so here in Hospital-Land. The several days of hallucinations were odd... Read More...

  • 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...

  • Gifts For Elders

    I am frequently asked to name good gifts for elders at Christmas and other times of the year. Since most of us at this blog are old folks ourselves, you would think there are ready answers, but the questions still... Read More...

  • Oliver Sacks' Essential Essay on Dying

    On the Op-Ed page of The New York Times last week, renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks announced his impending death from terminal cancer. True to his nature – or what I know of it from his 12 books and dozens of... Read More...
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