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What it's really like to get older
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Crabby Old Lady and the White House
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 that bore not a single reference to the...
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Crabby Old Lady on Komen/Planned Parenthood
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 was send a donation to Planned Parenthood. Apparently, she was not...
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ELDER MUSIC: Vivaldi
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 ? 4 February 2012
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 work) left a reference to a little animated movie titled as above. It's...
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What It's Like to Get Old ? on This Day, Anyway
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 and followed my normal routine. Fed the cat, made the...
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Elder Occupy
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 is an example of what the Occupy movement is about and...
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The White House Responds and...
...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 Barack Obama not to sell out elders in regard to Social...
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What Old Timey Print Ads Tell Us
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 Place and the other from John Brandt, whom...
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E-Books and Elders
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 interest was Apple iPads and the many Android copycat computer tablets that come with...
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ELDER MUSIC: Lady Soul
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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