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INTERESTING STUFF: 30 June 2012

KEEPING UP WITH SHIFTING MEDIA CULTURE The New York Times, this past week launched a Chinese language edition: Of course, I can't read a word of it (if you don't count the Bloomies ads) but I think it's good to... Read More...

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

GAY AND GRAY: Meet David

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...

Published Fri, Mar 25 2011 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady Laments the Future...

...at least as The New York Times reports it. In the past, predictions have usually usually appeared as science fiction fantasies of life 50 or a 100 years hence and it's always fun – and funny - when such prophecies... Read More...

Published Mon, May 05 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Gray Matters: AARP

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman (bio) writes the weekly Gray Matters column which appears here each Saturday. His Reflections column, in which he comments on news, politics and social issues from his perspective as one of the younger members...

Published Sat, Nov 28 2009 2:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Gifts for Elders on Your List...

...and if not for other elders, perhaps as hints for family members who might not know what you would like to have. If you hit the stores on black Friday, you're a braver person than I am. For me, one... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 30 2009 2:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

No Way to Treat a Crabby Elderblogger

Crabby Old Lady has been on a rip-roaring tear for most of the weekend and it is about nothing – or very nearly nothing - that affects you, dear reader. Nevertheless, she is going to carry on about it for... Read More...

Published Mon, Jun 18 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

A Sigh of Relief on Social Security (Or Maybe Not)

CORRECTION: Before I get to the news about Social Security, I must make you aware of a correction to last week's Thursday post titled If You've Seen One Old Person.... Here is the update I have inserted at the appropriate... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 24 2014 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

Medicare Observation Status

You've read the stories for years. An elder is hospitalized for a few days – it could be for anything from a broken bone to chest pain, fainting, irregular heartbeat or dozens of other conditions – a common occurrence at... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 17 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

<em>Older Than My Old Man Now</em>

EDITORIAL NOTES: If anyone has been waiting for me to answer an email for more than three or four days, it is probably to do with spam filters at your end. I have been getting a lot of returns of... Read More...

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

A Book Deal For You

I discovered the English writer, Julian Barnes, in 1984 with the publication that year of Flaubert's Parrot, and I haven't stopped reading him since. In the past decade, Barnes seems to have become almost as consumed with growing old, old... Read...

Published Wed, Aug 27 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Keeping Up with Technology While Old – or Not

Have you heard about the “Internet of Things”? The idea is that before long, everything you own – toaster, refrigerator, alarm clock, heater and air conditioner, electric razor and even toilet – will be connected via computer chip to the... Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 09 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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