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Forty-Seven Years Ago Today

EDITORIAL NOTE: Jan Adams, who blogs at Happening Here and usually writes the Gay and Gray column for this blog, is on a terrific trek visiting Hong Kong and Nepal. Before she left, she penned this story about today's sad... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 22 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

What You Can Do to Help Save Social Security

Thanksgiving dinner was a smashing success – a beautiful turkey, all the trimmings and I am, today, properly – ahem, stuffed. Thank you all for your lovely greetings yesterday. Black Friday holds no charms for me. Shopping has never been... Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 26 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

Call Congress Day and Comparative Health Costs

CALL CONGRESS DAY As I noted last week, today is Call Congress Day. The reason is that tomorrow, President Obama's deficit commission (also known as the cat food commission) will issue its final recommendations to reduce the deficit. Commission co...

Published Tue, Nov 30 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

GRAY MATTERS: The Simpson/Bowles Deficit Commission

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman (bio) writes the weekly Gray Matters column which appears here each Saturday. Links to past Gray Matters columns can be found here. Saul's Reflections column, in which he comments on news, politics and...

Published Sat, Dec 04 2010 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Time Goes By, Facebook and Twitter

Several newer readers have emailed about following or subscribing to Time Goes By on Twitter and/or Facebook. Although there is a long list of posts I want to write that are actually related to being old, I also had two... Read More...

Published Fri, Mar 23 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Age and Its Awful Discontents (?)

Today's blog post title (but for the question mark) is taken verbatim from a New York Times Op-Ed piece published about ten days ago by attorney and novelist, Louis Begley, age 78. You should go read it now and then... Read More...

Published Tue, Mar 27 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 31 March 2012

GOP WAR ON WOMEN This political season has been rough on women and it's damned hard to find any other way to define it than as a war on women. The Washington Post reports this week that advertisers are “trickling”... Read More...

Published Sat, Mar 31 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: 1939

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, Nov 17 2013 5:30 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

Driving While Old

Aside from dementia, nothing at the moment frightens me more than losing driving privileges. Even if you live in a place with good public transportation such as New York City or Portland, Oregon, it's not the same. There are half... Read More...

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

Retirement Sloth

If you are still working, today's post probably won't resonate much. But if you have been retired for awhile, perhaps you will know whereof Crabby Old Lady speaks. Or not. Crabby was laid off from what turned out to be... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 16 2009 2:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

Thoughts on Tucson

Since there really isn't much else to think about this week, let's keep going on the Arizona massacre. Some random thoughts: That awful church, Westboro Baptist, that demonstrates with vile signs and slogans at military funerals announced they...

Published Wed, Jan 12 2011 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Gordon Lightfoot

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 16 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady Versus Big Pharma

In a couple of weeks, Crabby Old Lady will undergo her first cataract surgery so on Tuesday she delivered herself to the physician's office for measurement of her eye and to go over admitting procedures. Among those were an explanation... Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 16 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

What I Learned This Month About Being Sick While Old

One of the universal effects of getting old is that our bodies and their systems gradually slow down and operate less efficiently so illness hits us harder than when we were younger and lasts longer. I see now, as I... Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 20 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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