Time Goes By
Blog URL http://www.timegoesby.net
Tags aging, getting old, senior citizens, elders, baby boomers, retirement, ageism, age discrimination, old age
With a little luck, we will all live long enough to get old, so it behooves us to find out what it's really like.
Latest Blog Posts
- Gray Matters: Health Insurance Companies on Nov 21, 2009 in Gray Matters
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...
- How Well Do You Sleep? on Nov 20, 2009 in Health
As I have undoubtedly mentioned here from time to time, I don't sleep worth a damn. If it's not that I need to pee, it's waking at ungodly early hours - like 2:30AM - without a chance of going back...
- The Cult of Manhattan Tower on Nov 19, 2009 in Journal
Two or three times over the life of this blog, I have written about a 1945 recording titled Manhattan Tower. I was a little girl of no more than five or six when my parents obtained it when it was...
- The Secret War on Social Security and Medicare on Nov 18, 2009 in Politics
Certainly you recall that back in 2004 and 2005, then-President Bush put all the substantial muscle of his office into Social Security “reform.” He and his surrogates spent more than year flitting about the nation spreading lies that Social Secur...
- Social Media Jabberwocky on Nov 17, 2009 in Crabby Old Lady
There is hardly a moment in Crabby Old Lady's online life when she is not being exhorted to tweet, Digg, Facebook, Yahoo Buzz, etc. everything she reads, hears, eats, believes and thinks. It's not just blogs anymore, it's newspapers big...
- Medicare Sign Up Starts Now, and More on Elderblogs on Nov 16, 2009 in ElderBloggers Health
MEDICARE SIGN UP The annual enrollment in Medicare Part B (Medigap, also called supplemental) and Part D (prescription drug) is open now and until 31 December. As noted in a post here a month ago, almost all premiums are increasing...
- ELDER MUSIC: Some Early Blues Women on Nov 15, 2009 in Elder Music
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...
