<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - My Time</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/health/columns/mytime?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><description>My Time</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[What Do Older Men Really Want?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45101-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45101-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:05:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  In one conference room, researchers talked about depression, suicide and broken dreams. In another, they spoke of joy and making dreams come true. In the first room the subject was men. In the second, women.]]></description><author> Abigail Trafford</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terri Schiavo and the Reality Gap]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8070-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8070-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:05:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The memory of my father's flickering eye makes me gasp.]]></description><author> Abigail Trafford</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Older, Wiser Revolution]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55830-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55830-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:05:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  PHILADELPHIA -- In the shadow of the Liberty Bell, another kind of revolution is underway in this historic city -- a social revolution.]]></description><author> Abigail Trafford</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Older Workers, Bonuses Cut Both Ways]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14493-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14493-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:05:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Randy Chambers, 61, of Worthington, Ohio, remembers the day he told his supervisor at Home Depot that he was taking a trip with his wife in a few weeks and would not be at work.]]></description><author> Abigail Trafford</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grandparents Help Define Family Values]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61404-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61404-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:05:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Family values . . . family values . . . family values . . . a chronic hum of apple-pie morality mixed with alarm that the American family is on the edge of apocalypse. But when political leaders bring up "family values," they usually ignore two important family members -- grandparents -- and discount their growing value in families.]]></description><author> Abigail Trafford</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a Public Service Redress,  Heart Campaign Puts on a New Face]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42612-2005Feb21.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42612-2005Feb21.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:05:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Every time I ride the Metro, I see them -- by now, they've almost become friends: a group of 11 middle-aged women who smile at me from a giant PSA poster in the Farragut North station. All of them are dressed in in-your-face red. Forget wearing black because it makes a person look thinner. Large, small and in between, these women are fashion-rule-breakers. They want to get noticed.]]></description><author> Abigail Trafford</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Ain't Heavy . . .]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24460-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24460-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:05:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   I am sick of being blamed for bankrupting the country's future. The coming collapse of Social Security, soaring drug costs in Medicare, the breakdown of Medicaid -- all my fault! Because I and millions of others are growing older and are about to become eligible for these giant public programs.]]></description><author> Abigail Trafford</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Age of  Discrimination]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6202-2005Feb7.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6202-2005Feb7.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:05:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ To geriatrician Deborah Goldberg, it seemed like the perfect job: running a geriatric teaching program at a hospital in New York. She had been an internist in private practice. She was board-certified as a geriatrician. She was told that she was clearly the leading candidate. The last hurdle was an interview with the chief of medicine.]]></description><author> Abigail Trafford</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old and The Restless]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33524-2005Jan24.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33524-2005Jan24.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:05:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The new fitness freak is the 60-year-old who lifts weights every day. Or the 70-year-old who runs marathons. For some, regular exercise becomes the organizing focus of the week, the way raising children and building a risumi used to be.]]></description><author> Abigail Trafford</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old and Proud]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16164-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16164-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:05:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ To tell or not to tell. . . . In the past, the answer was easy. After a certain age, a woman never revealed her age.]]></description><author> Abigail Trafford</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Past Time to Face the Past]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63965-2005Jan10.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63965-2005Jan10.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:05:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   He was 19 and they called him "Youngun." The tank commander said: "Get your butt out there." So he went out to search for the enemy. When he came back a few hours later, he discovered the bodies. A shell had exploded while his buddies were fixing lunch. They were dead.]]></description><author> Abigail Trafford</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going, Going . . . But Not Gone]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61038-2004Dec13.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61038-2004Dec13.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:05:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   They're saying goodbye in waves: Tom, Dan and Bill . . . Tom, Tommy and Colin -- a rush of high-profile retirements in the government and the media. Suddenly, a flock of successful men is stepping down from the high point of status and career.]]></description><author> Abigail Trafford</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Love Re-Connection]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41170-2004Dec6.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41170-2004Dec6.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:05:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Longevity puts a different ending on the Romeo and Juliet story.]]></description><author> Abigail Trafford</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Time for Flexibility]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20535-2004Nov29.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20535-2004Nov29.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:05:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[What do retirees and mothers of young children have in common? They both want jobs with flexible schedules.]]></description><author> Abigail Trafford</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aging: The View From Below]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4206-2004Nov22.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4206-2004Nov22.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:05:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Children know best. They see aging for what it is:]]></description><author> Abigail Trafford</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crucial Lessons, In a Time of Need]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51426-2004Nov15.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51426-2004Nov15.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:05:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Senior volunteers are contributing their time to help struggling school systems.]]></description><author> Abigail Trafford</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voting in a Vacuum]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35192-2004Nov8.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35192-2004Nov8.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:05:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Every election I walk down to the elementary school at end of the street to cast my vote. Not that my vote counts for much. As a District resident, I am a wallflower in the dance of national politics. Still, I vote.]]></description><author> Abigail Trafford</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicare's a Solution, Not The Problem]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62495-2004Oct25.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62495-2004Oct25.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:05:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Ann Satterthwaite goes to a birthday party for a friend who's turning 65, she makes up a red-white-and-blue card and holds a ceremony to welcome the new member into the country's greatest health club: Medicare.]]></description><author> Abigail Trafford</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Age Edge]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43180-2004Oct18.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43180-2004Oct18.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:05:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There are some workplaces where age is considered an asset.]]></description><author> Abigail Trafford</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Son's Suicide Mission]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25163-2004Oct11.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25163-2004Oct11.html?nav=rss_health/columns/mytime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:05:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  She was the star in her family -- beloved wife for nearly four decades, a sports mom for her three sons, adored friend, successful businesswoman, role model for her younger sisters, president of the student body in high school, tennis champ. "My mom was an incredible, vivacious, inquisitive person," said her son, Geoffrey Evans Beard of San Francisco.]]></description><author> Abigail Trafford</author></item></channel></rss>
