Time Goes By

Making Light of Our Mortality

For a long while during the middle years of the 20th century, my great Aunt Edith (see Timeline series about her here) worked as the executive secretary of the Oregon Funeral Directors Association. Undoubtedly, this accounts for my ease with... Read More...

Published Fri, Jun 22 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER PROSE INTERLUDE: The Measure of My Days

Through the nearly two decades I have been studying (or researching or reading or whatever this continuing interest is) aging, I have collected a good-sized library of related books. Mixed among the practical, the journalistic, scholarly and political...

Published Tue, Jun 26 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Cult of Manhattan Tower

Two or three times over the life of this blog, I have written about a 1945 recording titled Manhattan Tower. I was a little girl of no more than five or six when my parents obtained it when it was... Read More...

Published Thu, Nov 19 2009 2:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

What Not to be Thankful For

There is not much to be thankful for this season; it's been a horrible, painful year. Millions of people unemployed, millions thrown out of their homes, trillions of dollars in savings lost to the bank crash. Oh, wait. Not everyone... Read More.....

Published Wed, Nov 25 2009 2:47 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady, Books and Blog Spam

When this blog started up a decade ago, nobody cared about or wanted to know anything about old people. As Crabby Old Lady has often explained, back then pretty much everything about aging in the popular press, academia, television and... Read More.....

Published Fri, Mar 28 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 22 February 2014

THE WOMAN IN NO. 6 Tamar Orvell, who blogs at Only Connect, sent this video that is nominated for an Academy Award next month. It concerns 110-year-old Alice Herz Sommer who is the oldest Holocaust survivor in the world. As... Read More...

Published Sat, Feb 22 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 21 July 2012

VP BIDEN ON MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY Last Monday, Vice President Joe Biden addressed a group of community leaders from senior centers around the country who were visiting the White House. He asserted the Obama administration's continued opposition...

Published Sat, Jul 21 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Jessye Norman

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 27 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Professional Boomers Aging Badly

Did you read that baby boomer who was whining in The New York Times last Sunday about – surprise! - getting old? More particularly, about those damned other people who insist on being younger. It is not the real-life issues... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 03 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: The Drifters, Etc.

You never know who you're going to meet on the internet and I came to know Peter Tibbles (bio here) via email over the past couple of years. His extensive knowledge of most genres of music and his excellent taste... Read More...

Published Sun, Jan 09 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Aging Hands

HAIKU CONTEST WINNER: Thank you everyone who voted in yesterday's “make up” poll for a year's subscription to Typepad blog service. We have a winner: the haiku beginning with the line, "Memory bottle. More to come at a later date.... Read...

Published Tue, Oct 06 2009 2:39 AM by TIME GOES BY

Peter Tibbles and the AM in Oregon

You probably noticed that I wasn't here last week – instead, playing host to Peter Tibbles who had arrived all the way from Melbourne with the Assistant Musicologist (AM). Surely you know the two of them: Peter who holds forth... Read More...

Published Mon, May 07 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Cecilia Bartoli

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, Mar 25 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Henri the Cat – The Worst Noel

Millions of people save some vacation for this time of year and the week between Christmas and New Years has always felt to me like a vaguely pleasant waiting period, even when I was employed and at work. Now? I'm... Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 26 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: 1964