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ELDER MUSIC: Seasons - Summer Part 2

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 10 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Seasons – Summer Part 1

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 03 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elders and the Republican Healthcare Plan

EDITORIAL NOTE: This is a busy week for me so I'm writing this on Wednesday. God knows what will happen regarding the new healthcare plan by Friday morning when this is posted to TGB. If anything important changes, I'll try... Read More...

Published Fri, Mar 10 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Good and Bad “Entitlement” News From Congress and Trump World

Good News on Medicare Observation Status Many readers have emailed about this issue - one that is boring to read about but crucial to understand. First, a short background: Medicare Observation Status has been a frightful bugaboo for beneficiaries for...

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

Elders: Don't Let Trump Fatigue Stop You

Protests work. We who are old enough learned that first hand back in the 1960s when we stopped a war, helped force through civil rights legislation and made a big leap forward with women's rights. And it's true again in... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 27 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Send More Chuck Berry

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 26 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Travel While Old (and Resistance Notes)

[EDITORIAL NOTE: These travel complaints have been on my mind for a couple of weeks but they aren't wildly important unless you feel as I do. The Resistance Notes at the end are important.] During my working life, I traveled... Read More...

Published Wed, Mar 22 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Elder Hat Lady Cometh

Last May, in a three-part blog post (beginning here), I told you about my quest for a solution to my balding pate. It was this bad: Today it is worse. Back then, as I reported after much research, nothing regrows... Read More...

Published Mon, Sep 16 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Dead Relatives' Junk

It's been more than 21 years since I cleared out my mother's home after she died. There wasn't much. She had known she was dying and had, apparently, got rid of all but bare essentials before she was too sick... Read More...

Published Tue, Sep 17 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

How to Accept Our Aging Bodies – Part 2 of 2

[Part 1 is here] A man once told me that if he ever suggested to his 89-year-old grandmother that she was old, she would have smacked him. Yes, it is extreme to hang on to such a view at her... Read More...

Published Fri, Sep 13 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Dangers of Elderspeak

Some of you may know Marcy Belson as she is a regular contributor to our companion blog, The Elder Storytelling Place, and comments here at TGB too. Last weekend she emailed about a visit to the emergency room. Not to... Read More...

Published Tue, Sep 10 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Presidential Candidates Ignoring Their Age Peers

As Marc Freedman, the founder and CEO of Encore.org noted in The Wall Street Journal last week, with the exception of Ted Cruz, age 45, all the remaining candidates of both parties are old enough for Social Security. Bernie Sanders... Read More...

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

What Have You Learned at This Blog?

Now and then some of us take mention how much we learn from one another at Time Goes By. On the lightest level, without your suggestions, there might not be an Interesting Stuff list on Saturdays. I also wouldn't know... Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 24 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

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, Feb 14 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 3 October 2015

EDITORIAL NOTE: I try to keep this weekly links post to nine items or fewer because I believe that too much choice is no choice at all. Even so, I've gone overboard today but there was just so much interesting... Read More...

Published Sat, Oct 03 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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ELDER MUSIC: Seasons - Summer Part 2

ELDER MUSIC: Seasons – Summer Part 1

Elders and the Republican Healthcare Plan

Good and Bad “Entitlement” News From Congress and Trump World

Elders: Don't Let Trump Fatigue Stop You

ELDER MUSIC: Send More Chuck Berry

Travel While Old (and Resistance Notes)

The Elder Hat Lady Cometh

Dead Relatives' Junk

How to Accept Our Aging Bodies – Part 2 of 2

The Dangers of Elderspeak

Presidential Candidates Ignoring Their Age Peers

What Have You Learned at This Blog?

ELDER MUSIC: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

INTERESTING STUFF – 3 October 2015