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TIME GOES BY
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What it's really like to get older
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THE TGB ELDERLAW ATTORNEY: Understanding Trusts
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 licensed to practice in the state of Oregon. He also keeps his own blog,...
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Fixing (Not Destroying) Social Security
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 attention than I had expected. What they reported, mostly,...
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Peter Tibbles' Trip to Oregon ? Part 2
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 Oregon. On 3 May, I saw them off to Idaho...
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The Elite Meet on Social Security Today
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. Whenever you read the word ?privatize? in that regard, read ?loot.? Here is...
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President Obama Endorses Gay Marriage ? Finally
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 president has few actual powers. However, his position does imbue him with the authority to influence...
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ELDER MUSIC: Buddy Holly
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...
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INTERESTING STUFF ? 12 May 2012
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 resultant blindness. Two years ago, the Federal Trade Commission approved an amazing space-age treatment for some...
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The Best Health Advice? Just Move
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 more open browser windows and a keyboard....
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ELDER POETRY INTERLUDE: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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 the work with that wonderful, well-worn...
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How Progressive Elders Can Help
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 political posturing but it's not hard...
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