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ELDER MUSIC: Telemann by Ronni B. Patient Expert

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

INTERESTING STUFF – 26 May 2012 by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health THE ULTIMATE BEAM ME UP, SCOTTY When James Doolin who played Star Trek chief engineer, Scotty, died in 2005, his will specified his desire to have his ashes sent into sp ... Read on »

How Spending Changes in Retirement by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health We were speaking of retirement earlier this week and when I ran across a news item I had saved, I decided why not go whole hog in one week on this topic. According ... Read on »

ELDER POETRY INTERLUDE: Touch Me by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health By Stanley Kunitz Summer is late, my heart. Words plucked out of the air some forty years ago when I was wild with love and torn almost in two scatter like ... Read on »

Peter Tibbles' Travel Travails and Salmon Recipe by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health As regular readers know, Peter Tibbles owns Sundays at this blog where he weekly posts his delightful Elder Music column. But there's more to Peter than music (as if that ... Read on »

Retirement Stories – Part 2 by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Like some of the elders discussed in Part 1 of this series, I was forced into retirement before my time but luckier that it was before the 2008 crash. Laid off in 2004, m ... Read on »

Retirement Stories – Part 1 by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Reporter Floyd Norris, writing in The New York Times on Saturday, had this to say about retiring from the workforce: ”THE retirement dream seems further away for a l ... Read on »

ELDER MUSIC: Drinking Songs Part 1 by Ronni B. Patient Expert

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

INTERESTIING STUFF – 19 May 2012 by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health THE KIND OF CENTENARIAN I WANT TO BE In April, Eileen Emeline Ingles of Invercargill, New Zealand, turned 100. Until a year ago, writes reporter Gwyneth ... Read on »

THE TGB ELDERLAW ATTORNEY: Understanding Trusts by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Orrin Onken writes the twice-monthly TGB Elderlaw Attorney column in which he discusses legal issues of concern and interest to elders. He is an elderlaw attorney licens ... Read on »

Fixing (Not Destroying) Social Security by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health As reported here two days ago , a bunch of rich, white men (and two or three equally privileged women) met in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday resulting in a bit more media at ... Read on »

Peter Tibbles' Trip to Oregon – Part 2 by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Ten days ago or so, I posted some photos of Time Goes By Elder Music columnist Peter Tibbles and his Assistant Musicologist, Norma, during their stay with me here in Oreg ... Read on »

The Elite Meet on Social Security Today by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health You've heard of Peter G. Peterson, haven't you? He is the billionaire financier who has, for decades, been spending his money in pursuit of privatizing Social Security. W ... Read on »

President Obama Endorses Gay Marriage – Finally by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health The latest cover of the New Yorker magazine on newsstands today. Isn't this terrific: Compared to Congress and the judicial branch of government, a pre ... Read on »

ELDER MUSIC: Buddy Holly by Ronni B. Patient Expert

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

INTERESTING STUFF – 12 May 2012 by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health BIONIC EYES FOR ELDERS An estimated half million Amercians age 75 and older are afflicted with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) along with, eventually, the resulta ... Read on »

The Best Health Advice? Just Move by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Sometimes it takes me all day to write a post for this blog. That is, six or eight or more hours sitting in a chair poring over books, magazines, printouts, a dozen or mo ... Read on »

ELDER POETRY INTERLUDE: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Well, not the entire poem of T.S. Eliot although it is surely worth the read and you will find it here . This, today, is a short six lines taken from near the end of ... Read on »

How Progressive Elders Can Help by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health It's interesting, as I have done for the past ten days or so, to take such a long time off from the daily news. I am lost right now on the day-to-day minutiae of politica ... Read on »

“Honoring” Elders During Older Americans Month by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health ITEM: The public transportation agency in Portland, Oregon, TriMet, avoids using the word “old” with a hokey euphemism Crabby Old Lady had not heard before moving here. A ... Read on »

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