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Wrinkles, We Have Wrinkles

It is, to me, the most offensive word there is about getting old: “anti-aging.” To be anti-aging is to be anti-life but even so, the word, the idea, is ubiquitous on the packaging of hundreds of brands of snake oil... Read More...

Published Tue, Apr 01 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elder Dating

If you have read the About page on this blog or the Photo Biography, you know that I spent 25 years or so in New York City producing television shows. Because it's “show biz,” it operates differently from other businesses... Read More...

Published Mon, Mar 31 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: 1948

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 30 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 29 March 2014

LET'S BRING BACK JONATHAN WINTERS In April 1964, late night host Jack Paar handed comedian Jonathan Winters a stick. It's just an old stick and all Paar says is, “Do something with it.” Watch as Winters riffs for four minutes... Read More...

Published Sat, Mar 29 2014 5:30 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

Statistical Notes on the U.S. 65-Plus Population

The United States Bureau of the Census is a formidable agency. It's primary responsibility is, as we know, to conduct the constitutionally-mandated nose count of the population every ten years ending in a zero but it collects much more information...

Published Thu, Mar 27 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elder Organ Donation

A few days ago, an email landed in my inbox with a subject line about old age and organ donation. Huh? Without having given it much thought, I had assumed old organs were probably not useful, probably worn out. According... Read More...

Published Wed, Mar 26 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Making Friends in Old Age

As several people commented on yesterday's post, one of the hardest things about getting old is loneliness as spouses and friends die. But death is only the most dramatic event that shrinks our social circles. When we stop working, we... Read More...

Published Tue, Mar 25 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Imagining Being Old

It is easy to feel chagrined at falling into the online rabbit hole, wasting hours with cute kitty videos and whatnot. But it's not always fruitless. Following one link to another, particularly when starting out with a list of search... Read More...

Published Mon, Mar 24 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Elvis 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, Mar 23 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 22 March 2014

LOVING GETTING OLD The British charity, AgeUK, created this gorgeous video – 100 people age 1 to 100 – to help promote age acceptance. Roger McGough's poem is read by Sir Christopher Lee. I was shocked when it was pointed... Read More...

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

The World's Oldest Rock and Roll Band

If you were young in the 1960s when youth culture was still being invented, it was a social requirement of the highest order to declare a band choice: you were either a Beatles fan or a Rolling Stones fan and... Read More...

Published Fri, Mar 21 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

How Not to Freak Out About Dying

Sara Davidson is a respected American journalist and best-selling author of, among other books, Leap!, Loose Change and Joan: Forty Years of Love, Loss and Friendship with Joan Didion. Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, more familiarly known as Reb Zalman...

Published Thu, Mar 20 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

How Satisfying is Your Old Age?

An old friend recently asked me that question or, rather, something similar: “Are you happy in your old age?” he asked. “Are you checking off items on your bucket list?” Since I was pretty sure I understood what he intended... Read More...

Published Wed, Mar 19 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Old and Fat – Facts of Life

It is no secret that many people gain weight as they age. Science does not fully understand the reasons but among the guesses are genetics (yeah, that stuff we're stuck with and can't change), diet and lack of exercise which... Read More...

Published Tue, Mar 18 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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