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For Politically Disappointed Elders

President Barack Obama did not make news in his Monday night speech. The only thing that was slightly encouraging was that his debt ceiling/deficit reduction plan did not include cuts to Social Security Medicare and Medicaid. But that doesn't mean...

Published Wed, Jul 27 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Old Age is Better Than Most People Believe

Many of you sent a link to the Wall Street Journal Encore section titled “Why Everything You Think About Aging May be Wrong.” The sections of the report are divided into six myths about depression, cognitive decline, employment productivity, loneliness...

Published Mon, Dec 08 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Maybe It's Not Worth the Effort at My Age

[CONTEST NOTE: The contest posted yesterday to win a copy of the book, How To Be Old, is still open. You may add your name for the drawing in the comments ON THAT PAGE ONLY until midnight tonight Pacific Standard... Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Hanukkah 5775

[EDITORIAL NOTE: Usually, on big holidays, I post a photo or video, something short as a celebration and let us otherwise have a day off from the blog. This year, a contributor to The Elder Storytelling Place sent a Hanukkah... Read More...

Published Tue, Dec 16 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Holiday Gifts for Elders 2012

Since most TGB readers are older than 50 or 60, it struck me for the first time today, after many years of preparing this annual shopping list, that maybe we're buying for ourselves – that is, a few of us... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 03 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Hannukah 5773

Yes, I'm a day early for this but there is Interesting Stuff scheduled for tomorrow plus Elder Music for Sunday and I don't believe anyone will mind. My good friend, Yaakov Kirschen, has been writing and drawing his Dry Bones... Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 07 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Raise the Medicare Eligibility Age?

The current age at which Americans are eligible for Medicare is 65. There are strong indications from the fiscal cliff negotiations in Washington that in exchange for a (low) two percent increase in the tax rate on high-income earners, the... Read More...

Published Tue, Dec 11 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Social Security – Yes, Again, Because...

...it is vitally important not only to you and me, but to our younger friends, our children, grandchildren and beyond. Nevertheless, a lot of members of Congress and all the Republican presidential candidates would kill it altogether if they could......

Published Fri, Aug 19 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady's Economic Prescription

Crabby Old Lady has been on sabbatical from this blog for a couple of months. Spurred on by the debt ceiling kabuki that obsessed Washington politicians for months along with their general falsehoods and stupidities on the subject of the... Read More...

Published Tue, Aug 23 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Johna Ferguson at ESP

I'm on hiatus until Monday 19 September. The Elder Storytelling Place continues as will Interesting Stuff on Saturday and Peter Tibbles' Elder Music on Sunday. At The Elder Storytelling Place today, Johna Ferguson: Dreams Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 14 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Jones

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, Sep 18 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Dear Diary: 13 January 2015

About three years ago, a remarkable book was published: New York Diaries 1609 – 2009 edited by Teresa Carpenter. It is what the title says it is, excerpts from the diaries of some New Yorkers and visitors to that city... Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 13 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 17 JANUARY 2015

POLICE OFFICER WHO KILLED 95-YEAR-OLD STANDS TRIAL TGB Reader Cathy Johnson alerted me to this story of John Wrana, a 95-year-old World War II veteran who died at the hands of a police officer in a suburb of Chicago. John... Read More...

Published Sat, Jan 17 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Growing Old Alone

A week ago, TGB reader Yvonne Cunningham emailed a link about 77-year-old actor (and lifelong lothario), Jack Nicholson. Britain's National Post reports that he ”...admitted to being lonely as he faces dying with nobody by his side. “In an interview...

Published Wed, Jan 21 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: The Impressions, Etc.

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, Jan 25 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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