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Crabby Old Lady on Awareness Junk by Ronni B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health You could say that Crabby Old Lady is on a tear this week, what might be called a bitch roll. First Komen, then White House communication and today, awareness junk – the ... Read on »
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night by Ronni B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Lately, I've been reading some poems about old age. A large number are painful, angry or sad. And then there is this one: Youth, large, lusty, loving - youth full of ... Read on »
Crabby Old Lady and the White House by Ronni B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Here we go again. Remember when Crabby Old Lady told you about a letter emailed from her house to the White House ? And then, a few days later, the pro forma reply th ... Read on »
Crabby Old Lady on Komen/Planned Parenthood by Ronni B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health The first thing Crabby Old Lady did last week when she read about Susan G. Komen For the Cure withdrawing their grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings ... Read on »
ELDER MUSIC: Vivaldi 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 – 4 February 2012 by Ronni B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health THE FANTASTIC FLYING BOOKS OF... Mr. Morris Lessmore. On last week's discussion of e-readers versus “real” books, Marian (sorry, the link you left to your blog doesn't w ... Read on »
What It's Like to Get Old – on This Day, Anyway by Ronni B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Well, I mean yesterday, Thursday. It's been happening about every two months for the past five years or so, as it did yesterday. I awakened at my usual early hour an ... Read on »
Elder Occupy by Ronni B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health On yesterday's post about a (non)answer from the White House in response to my letter about Social Security, Jan Adams, Letha, Frank Paynter and Linda all noted that this ... Read on »
The White House Responds and... by Ronni B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health ...there is nothing to know. Did we really expect anything else? Remember last Friday when I posted a letter here that I had emailed the White House asking President ... Read on »
What Old Timey Print Ads Tell Us by Ronni B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Within an hour or so of each other on the weekend, emails arrived from two friends – one from Nancy Leitz whom you know from her family tales at The Elder Storytelling Pl ... Read on »
E-Books and Elders by Ronni B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Laurie Orlov who runs the excellent blog, Aging in Place Technology Watch , asked a good question last week: Why aren't seniors wowed by tablets? Laurie's main inter ... Read on »
ELDER MUSIC: Lady Soul 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 – 28 January 2012 by Ronni B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health [ATTENTION: Those of you who read this blog via email or rss need to click on the title of the story so it will open in your browser where you can view the videos.] ... Read on »
Mr. President: Don't Sell Out American Elders by Ronni B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health [UPDATE: I tried Midori's suggestion of using the email return on White House messages, but it goes to the same page at the White House website that limits messages to 250 ... Read on »
Tribes of Eden by Dr. Bill Thomas by Ronni B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health So much to read; so little time. Of the 200,000 or so books published each year (that's just in the U.S.), I learn of – oh, maybe several hundred through reviews, adverti ... Read on »
Tales of Old Age Memory by Ronni B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health On Monday at The Elder Storytelling Place, our friend William Weatherstone entertained us with a 17-year-old column from newspaper editor, Colin McKim, about “losing it” ... Read on »
Money Saving Tips from the Local Power Company by Ronni B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health According to the Congressional Research Service, the median annual income of citizens age 65 and older was $30,770 in 2008. Like most elder women, my income is lower than ... Read on »
How We Might Come to Terms with Death by Ronni B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health I am aware that what I'm about to write is a long-ish, roundabout way of getting to my point today, but I think it is relevant. If it's not, I'm sure you will let me know ... Read on »
ELDER MUSIC: Georgia on my Mind 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 – 21 January 2012 by Ronni B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health WHY THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS LUDICROUS This is a clever explanation of why English spelling is so difficult for school kids. The presenter is typographer Edward Rondthale ... Read on »