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I Am Back and Ready

Seven years, three months, one week, and one day ago, I lost my Dad, Neil, to a Glioblastoma (GBM). My father was a “man’s man” and, although he was able to scare many of our suitors away, if you made... Continue reading

Posted Dec 20, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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Election Day

This morning finds me with an overwhelming anxiety. I have been up for hours, and have reached for my phone three times to call one of the only people I know who could understand, empathize, and validate the terror I... Continue reading

Posted Nov 3, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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Ronni Bennett, 1941-2020

Yesterday, at 6:28 PM local time, Veronica "Ronni" Bennett passed away. Ronni bravely documented the aging process, with her Last Great Gift being the documentation of her death. We spoke for sometime yesterday, and throughout our conversation, she circled back... Continue reading

Posted Oct 31, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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Teehee

Commented Oct 30, 2020 on Old Lady Fancy Pants at TIME GOES BY

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The Alex and Ronni Show – 30 October 2020

We have come up today on a new episode of The Alex and Ronni Show, recorded on Wednesday. When I started this blog 16 years ago, I subtitled it (see banner above) “what it's really like to get old” and... Continue reading

Posted Oct 30, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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Old Lady Fancy Pants

If, like me, you have a big-deal disease or two such as cancer and COPD, there is one thing you can count on: nothing stays the same and hardly anything gets better. That's the cosmic joke. (There are more earthly... Continue reading

Posted Oct 28, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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A TGB READER STORY: For a Few Mysterious Minutes

By TGB reader Jean-Pierre Some years ago - before I got to be eighty-five with a miserably sore hip - I was walking my youngest grand-daughter to the play park on a golden Fall day when she said, quite unexpectedly,... Continue reading

Posted Oct 27, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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Monday Time Out

As I noted at the end of Saturday's Interesting Stuff post, it's been a few rough days in a row – weakness, lethargy, disinterest, lots of sleep and not much else. Even one of my top two or three favorite... Continue reading

Posted Oct 26, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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ELDER MUSIC: Classical Whatnot 4

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... Continue reading

Posted Oct 25, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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INTERESTING STUFF – 24 October 2020

HOW WOLVES CHANGE RIVERS I'm pretty sure I posted this a few years ago but it recently turned up again and I find it as impressive and encouraging as before. According to the Youtube page, ”When wolves were reintroduced to... Continue reading

Posted Oct 24, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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Hi Sali... So good to get a long catchup letter from you. I wish I could respond in time but I'm exhausted today, even with a good night's sleep. Sometimes I feel like I'll just melt, sitting here in the desk chair. Other days are better - yesterday and the day before. I am so bloody tired of Trump, polititics, lies, repetetive news, death and dying, arguments over masks - the whole thing. No one has any answers and those who purport to do are just stupid. I try to get by day to day - maybe something like you and Yak. But this is about all I can write today. I just too tired. Much love Sali to both of you. RB

Commented Oct 23, 2020 on Guidance For My Near Future at TIME GOES BY

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Quotations on The Time Before Dying

It has been a long time since I posted a list of quotations about age and dying. In fact, it is probably years. But I don't stop collecting them – my god, people have a lot to say about death,... Continue reading

Posted Oct 23, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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A Day in the Life of Old Age

[EDITORIAL NOTE: Although this list is true, it is not meant to be overly serious. Try to see the humor.] Toilet Wash face Brush teeth Aim body toward kitchen (don't trip on the oxygen cable) Start coffee Take first pill... Continue reading

Posted Oct 21, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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A TGB READER STORY: Dancing with the Monkey

By Dave Clark who blogs at Just a Geezer I’ve seen actors on the screen, clowns at the circus dancers at the ballet, singers at the opera, musicians at the concert. But I have never seen anything to compare, to... Continue reading

Posted Oct 20, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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Guidance For My Near Future

I'm not certain this is of much of a useful blog post or of interest to anyone but myself but what the hell, I'll write it down anyway so I have something to compare next week, next month, next... Daily... Continue reading

Posted Oct 19, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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ELDERMUSIC: A Soupçon of Ellington

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... Continue reading

Posted Oct 18, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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INTERESTING STUFF – 17 October 2020

MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT NOBEL PRIZE SURPRISE According to Twitter, The #NobelPrize committee couldn't reach Paul Milgrom to share the news that he won, so his fellow winner and neighbor Robert Wilson knocked on his door in the middle of... Continue reading

Posted Oct 17, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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The Alex and Ronni Show -16 October 2020

Not that I set out meaning to avoid the president's name in this episode of The Alex and Ronni Show, but somehow Alex and I got to the end with it coming up only once – and we backed away... Continue reading

Posted Oct 16, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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Choosing a Life – Or Letting It Happen

Reflecting on the life I have lived is not something I have much dwelled upon during these several years of living with terminal cancer and COPD. I've always been more of a now person than a then one. Not that... Continue reading

Posted Oct 14, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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The Face of Time

By Anne Burack-Weiss “My contemplations are of Time That has transfigured me.” - W.B. Yeats The Lamentation of The Old Pensioner It is said that by a certain age a woman has “the face she deserves.” And about 70 or... Continue reading

Posted Oct 13, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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Let's You and Me Have a Bit of a Chat Today

It didn't start out this way 16 years ago, but it has been a good, long while now since this blog became a more collaborative effort between you, dear readers, and me than just one woman's scribblings. You supplied a... Continue reading

Posted Oct 12, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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ELDER MUSIC: 1956 Yet Again

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... Continue reading

Posted Oct 11, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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INTERESTING STUFF – 10 October 2020

SEXIST TAKEDOWN Thank TGB reader Ali in ... Continue reading

Posted Oct 10, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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Age Friendly Adaptations, Adjustments and Workarounds

It's not always that we can't do it anymore (although that can become true), but that we can't do it the way we have always done it before now - “it” being a usually increasing number of things that become... Continue reading

Posted Oct 9, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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Crabby Old Lady and the Ghoul

In the scheme of things that is our planet's terrible predicament, this is not important. But it is the first message Crabby Old Lady encountered from the world outside her home on Tuesday morning and it deflated her for an... Continue reading

Posted Oct 7, 2020 at TIME GOES BY

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