Sitting in a local coffee shop, I recently overheard a couple of women talking about ageism and the havoc it wreaks on older people. But then, almost in the same breath, the focus of the conversation shifted to teenagers today.
Continue ReadingRead Cockeyed Optimists in a Crybaby Culture, a post by Robert Stein on his blog, Connecting the Dots. Using the wonderful old Rogers and Hammerstein South Pacific song, I’m a Cockeyed Optimist as a metaphor, Stein looks at the way our American c…
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Okay, before I get into this post, please recall that I am spending most of my time in bed with chills, aches, pains and general low-level feverishness so I have no sense of how well I’m thinking. You’ll have to…
Continue ReadingMORE THAN WE’LL EVER KNOW. There are things we know, things we don’t know, and things we don’t know we don’t know. Our formal schooling, continuing education and professional development ably cover the first two things, assuming we apply oursel…
Continue ReadingI’m on hiatus until Monday 19 September. The Elder Storytelling Place continues as will Interesting Stuff on Saturday and Peter Tibbles’ Elder Music on Sunday.
At The Elder Storytelling Place today, Mary B Summerlin: Little Old Ladies
Continue Reading For those of you who may be new to blogging or elderblogging or TimeGoesBy, meet Millie Garfield. She is one of the oldest bloggers around – in her own years and in the number of years blogging. A pioneer of…
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popular perceptions of retirement have undergone two major shifts since the 1930s, when the creation of Social Security helped finance a period of “brief rest after a life of hard work.”
Continue ReadingThe idea that time flies faster as you age is a commonly held truism and has been upheld by research. But several new studies highlighted in the BPS Research Digest blog indicate otherwise: Age accounted for four per cent of the variance in how quickly participants said the last ten years had passed and just […]
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