Cat Culture
Joe, a Golden Retriever, arrives at the dog run. His pal Max, a German Shepherd, trots over to greet him. They sniff each other. MAX: Hi Joe. How’ve you been? JOE: Great. Glad to see you brought your ball. My…
Continue ReadingMemorial Day 2011
Memorial Day was created to honor both Union and Confederate soldiers who died in the U.S. Civil War. It was later extended to include World War I and now, in memory of the men and women who have died during…
Continue ReadingElders on Television
Young people are watching less and less television or, perhaps, watching it more on computer screens and the average age of viewers these days for the major broadcast and cable channels ranges from mid-50s to mid-60s. Maybe that has something…
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Elder-Friendly Stores
Thank you all for your lovely comments on yesterday’s post about Time Goes By’s poor reputation rating. It surely was not meant as a fishing expedition and I was surprised. You make me feel all warm and fuzzy. You’re all just wonderful.
Continue ReadingEarliest Memories
My brother and I lived together as children for only about nine years. I was five-and-a-half when he was born and moved to California when I was 15 and he was nine. In the year since I moved to Oregon…
Continue ReadingElderbloggers Pioneering the Future of Aging
In a story at boston.com about the future of aging, reporter Leon Neyfalkh concludes: ”…one thing we can definitely count on is that the old people of the future will have been young once — and the lives they were…
Continue ReadingElder Unemployment
Superficially, the latest unemployment numbers showed some good news for workers age 55 and older: 203,000 more of them were employed in April than in March and the unemployment rate for the group remained steady at 6.5 percent. The improvement…
Continue ReadingHow Did the Women’s Movement Affect Your Life?
[EDITORIAL NOTE: Regarding the link about face aging technology showing up on the Facebook walls of some of you yesterday: that most definitely was not from me. It was spam. Being Facebook illiterate, I have no idea how it happened…
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