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What Not to be Thankful For by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health There is not much to be thankful for this season; it's been a horrible, painful year. Millions of people unemployed, millions thrown out of their homes, trillions of dollars i ... Read on »

REFLECTIONS: The Long View by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman ( bio ) writes the twice-monthlyReflections column for Time Goes By in which he comments on news, politics and social issues fr ... Read on »

Aging into Sentimentality by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health While clearing out my mother's home after she died, I marveled at how many videos she had of the cutesy variety of animal movies. Born Free, Harry and Tonto, Lady and the Tram ... Read on »

ELDER MUSIC: Ian Tyson by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health 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 ... Read on »

Gray Matters: Health Insurance Companies by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health 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 ... Read on »

How Well Do You Sleep? by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior 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 ... Read on »

The Cult of Manhattan Tower by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health 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 ob ... Read on »

The Secret War on Social Security and Medicare by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health 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 surroga ... Read on »

Social Media Jabberwocky by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health 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 ... Read on »

Medicare Sign Up Starts Now, and More on Elderblogs by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior 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 po ... Read on »

ELDER MUSIC: Some Early Blues Women by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health 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 ... Read on »

GRAY MATTERS: Medicare 2010 by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health 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 ... Read on »

Elderblog List Update – November 2009 by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health With hundreds of blogs on the Elderbloggers List, I don't often visit all of them so I'm deeply grateful to Deejay, who blogs these days at The Chinese Mirror about Chinese-la ... Read on »

Health Care Reform and Women's Rights by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health When the House of Representatives passed their version of a health care reform bill last Saturday, the shocker for me was the Stupak amendment ( full text here ) which would b ... Read on »

ELDER NEWS: 11 November 2009 by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Several items of interest to elders today, and let's start with the holiday – it is Veterans' Day, the time we set aside to honor the men and women who put their lives a ... Read on »

REFLECTIONS: On the Congress by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman ( bio ) writes the twice-monthlyReflections column for Time Goes By in which he comments on news, politics and social issues fr ... Read on »

Religion's Intrusion into Health Care Reform by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health So the House finally passed a health care reform bill late Saturday night. Barely. The vote was 220 to 215. I felt more relief than elation.Now the Senate needs to produce a m ... Read on »

ELDER MUSIC: Promised Land by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health 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 ... Read on »

GRAY MATTERS: Long Term Care by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman ( bio ) writes the weekly Gray Matters column which appears here each Saturday. HisReflectionscolumn, in which he comments on n ... Read on »

“Gray Matters” Moves from Newsday to Time Goes By by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Regular Time Goes By readers know the twice-monthly Reflections column written by 80-year-old, veteran journalist, Saul Friedman ( Bio here ). Reflections has become one of th ... Read on »

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