Time Goes By: The Only Website About What It’s Really Like To Get Older

New York, NY (PRWEB) August 29, 2004

Most older people are happy, employed and active, but you wouldn’t know that from the popular media which routinely portrays them as feeble, decrepit and foolish. Now, Time Goes By, the first and only Website to examine what it’s really like to get older, takes on the common stereotype and is creating a popular and vibrantly interactive dialogue among a global audience that includes baby boomers, seniors and interestingly, some younger folks too.

The new blog, which launched just five months ago, has already reached five on a scale of ten on Google’s Website importance rankings, a rarity for non-political Weblogs in their first year. It covers, in essays published five days a week, cultural attitudes toward older people, age discrimination in the workplace, coming to terms with one’s aging appearance, social life, the politics of aging, sex, health and anything that touches on the blog’s tagline, “What It’s Really Like To Get Older.”

The blog’s founder, former network television producer and Internet editorial director, Ronni Bennett, who is 63, launched the site because she could not find any good writing on what to expect from life as she gets older. “Try typing the word ‘aging’ into Google or even Amazon,” she said from her townhouse in New York City’s Greenwich Village. “You get 8 million results from government agencies about loss, illness and death. Or worse, snake-oil salesmen who promise you’ll live to be 150 if you buy their potion.”

She rejects the popular attitude toward aging. “Getting old can’t possibly be as bad as our culture makes it out to be,” says Ms. Bennett, who wanted to know what it feels like in real life: How her beliefs and attitudes might change; How to think about her appearance which, she says, isn’t so cute anymore; What other people have gained in opportunities for growth, self-knowledge and maybe even wisdom.

Because aging is an ongoing process and not a one-time event, Ms. Bennett realized that the newest form of publishing, a Weblog, or blog, which is a Website in the form of a regularly updated log, would be the perfect medium to explore all aspects of aging as they happen. Blogs allow for – even require, in the culture of the blog community – a personal point of view and leave unlimited space for interactive discussion by way of comments from readers. The impact has been gratifying. The comments sections of Time Goes By are rich with other people’s stories, arguments and interaction not only in response to Ms. Bennett’s essays, but with one another.

Besides her passionate interest in changing cultural attitudes toward older people, Ms. Bennett is putting her professional skills to work to create this destination Weblog. As the first managing editor of cbsnews.com in 1996, she was a pioneer in the development of online reporting, and she collaborated with a professional Web designer for the look-and-feel of the Weblog. Her previous, 25-year-career as a TV producer for such programs as “Biography,” “20/20” and “The Barbara Walters Specials” honed her informational and entertainment know-how.

The timing of Ms. Bennett’s decision to launch Time Goes By could not be better. Currently, people 65 and older make up 13 percent of the U.S. population. By 2020, that will rise to 17 percent including, by then, about half the 78 million baby boomers. But interest in the real-life issues of aging begins long before 65, and the need for the stories and information Ms. Bennett provides at Time Goes By is being proved by the response to her blog.

In one of the most popular essays at Time Goes By, Ms. Bennett’s sometime alter ego, Crabby Old Lady, takes on, tongue-in-cheek, the cosmetics industry for trying to foist green glitter eye shadow on the older crowd. Even more popular is the 12-part series in which she eloquently describes her experience as a full-time caregiver during her mother’s final, fatal illness. It has inspired readers to contribute their own stories and hopes for their later years creating a fertile and enlightening dialogue. Soon she will introduce a new, feature section of interviews with celebrities and “real people” revealing their personal feelings about getting older.

One 50-year-old reader spoke for many when he posted this comment to Ms. Bennett’s Weblog: “I love that you embrace who you are at this time in your life. Here’s someone who makes her aging process an adventure! Wow! What a concept. Thank you for your inspiration to enjoy who I am at this time in my life.”

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Question by C. C.: Do you consider Barbara Walters immoral?
When Barbara Walters announced that she had an affair with a married man I felt she let a lot of people down. Do you agree or disagree? Why?

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Answer by Gabby
Omg!

You better believe that I agree with you completely.Barbara is always trying to walk around here like some kind of a saint,and turns out she was being a hussy for years.I dislike Star Jones,but I agree with what she said recently.It is very selfish and degrading of Barbara to humiliate an innocent Family with this smut and trash.I have no respect for her.

His ex-wife is deceased now,and I’m quite sure their kids don’t want to hear about their Father dogging their Mother with Barbara.She shouldn’t have been with somebody’s Husband anyway.Still to this day,she does not respect the sacredness of marriage.Cheating is heartbreaking and disgusting!

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Question by mr grean jeans: would barbara walters be a good in a DEPENDS commercial?
Why would i wet myself worwy
I was never in that westewaunt with that man

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Impenetrable racial barrier in higher education broken 50 years ago this month!

(PRWEB) September 16, 2004

“Brown vs. the Board of Education” wasn’t the only civil rights breakthrough in 1954. A few months after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision, young Marigold Linton broke a seemingly impenetrable racial barrier in higher education. But there won’t be any fanfare, parades, or proclamations for that courageous “bright little Indian girl” who in September 1954 became the very first Indian from a California reservation to attend college.

At one point, Linton was one of just 14 Native Americans to hold a Ph.D. — her breakthrough eventually led to 169 American Indians earning a Ph.D. in 2000 alone. In addition to attaining tenure at San Diego State University and the University of Utah in cognitive psychology, she co-founded the National Indian Education Association and is now is Director of American Indian Outreach at the University of Kansas. Co-author of the bestseller textbook on statistics, Linton has just been named alongside Lance Armstrong as an example of the courage needed to fulfill your dreams in the book “Dream It Do It: Inspiring Stories of Dreams Come True” by Sharon Cook and Graciela Sholander (Planning/Communications, $ 16.95, 2004, http://www.dreamitdoit.net, 888/366-5200).

“Just as Lance Armstrong showed incredible courage recovering from his widespread cancer to become the all-time champion of the Tour de France, the teenage Linton had to muster all the courage she could to overcome her fears, defeatism, and a whole new culture to enter the University of California-Riverside in 1954,” explains Graciela Sholander, co-author of Dream It Do It. “Nobody living on an Indian reservation in California had even entered college, much less graduated. Everywhere she turned, she faced discouraging words, and nobody on her Morongo Reservation in Southern California could even tell her what college was. To flourish in an entirely different world than the one she grew up in, Linton embodied the same fortitude and courage that Armstrong has displayed 50 years later.”

Fortunately for Linton and the thousands who have followed in her footsteps, her eighth grade teacher not only knew what college was but recognized college material. Breaking with the tradition that kept white people from setting foot on reservation grounds, Linton’s eighth grade teacher Mrs. Adams visited Linton’s phoneless mother to tell her “Your daughter is very bright. You must make sure she goes to college.” This visit made a huge impression on Linton giving her the goal of attending college, whatever that was.

But it took more than a dream to get to college in the face of the overt racial discrimination that dominated the 1950s. No other teacher at the off-reservation, nearly all-white Banning Union High School took an interest in “our bright little Indian girl.” And when Linton’s grade point average tied her with another student for valedictorian, the principal arbitrarily dropped to Linton second solely due to her race.

“I thought it was unfair but being stoic, I did nothing about it,” Linton recalls. “That’s just the way things were. But I had begun to think, ‘Someday, people will realize how remarkable my performance is.’” Knowing the score, Linton didn’t even approach any high school teachers for recommendation letters for college, instead searching out others with college degrees, including a town librarian and a local newspaper reporter interested in Indian affairs.

“The transition to college can be rough on any child,” notes Sharon Cook, coauthor of “Dream It Do It.” “But try to imagine the challenges faced by someone who has lived her entire life on an Indian reservation. It’s a brave new world where, at age 18, she had to suddenly learn a whole new way of living that everybody around her had learned since early childhood.”

“Everything was traumatic,” Linton recalls. “First I couldn’t figure out how to catch the bus and then, wanting to remain as unobtrusive as possible, I couldn’t bring myself to pull the cord to get off. On campus I was afraid to make a fool of myself, so I never talked. When called on in class, I would start crying and run out of the room.”

She sure wasn’t getting any support from the folks back home who thought they were being kind and giving her a reality check when they repeatedly told her that she would flunk out before the first semester ended. Her father reassured her that when she flunked out, she was always welcome back home. At the shirt factory where she worked to save for tuition the summer of 1954, her employers tried to talk her out of college. “They basically said, ‘You’re going to flunk out anyway, so why bother?” Linton recalls. “They wanted me to stay and work for them for 50 cents an hour, which was 90 percent more than what most on my reservation were making. I thought, ‘Well, if I’m that good at the shirt factory, I’ll try college. And if I flunk out, I’ll go back to the shirt factory.” Even though she was terrified of flunking out of college — and half-convinced that she would — Linton was determined to try.

Linton’s courage and native intelligence won out, and Linton entered the newly-opened Riverside campus of the University of California. Foregoing the social and recreational temptations freshmen face, Linton spent nearly every waking moment studying. Receiving straight A’s her first semester, she marched into the university registrar’s office and “told them that there was a mistake and that they had given me the wrong grades. I was quite insistent that they should take these grades back and give them to whomever they really belonged and give me my real grades,” Linton recalls with a laugh. “They thought I was crazy. It took a very long time before I believed I might succeed.”

Slowly but surely, as she learned the ways of a world she hadn’t grown up in, Linton started dating, working part-time, and winning increasingly larger scholarships. And learn she did, earning her B.S. in experimental psychology in 1958 and a Ph.D. at UCLA in 1964.

As her academic career advanced, she could not forget all the struggles she faced leaving the reservation, leading to her new dream to expand educational opportunities for other American Indians. At age 50, she left her secure position as Director of Educational Services in the College of Education at Arizona State University to become the school’s Director of American Indian Programs and then, two years later, Director of American Indian Outreach at the University of Kansas. There she has been awarded grants from NASA, National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation to bring quality math and science programs to Indians living on reservations in Arizona.

Today “our bright little Indian girl” is President-Elect of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science and a member of the University of Kansas’ Women’s Hall of Fame. In 1994, the University of California, Riverside, the college where Linton became the first Indian from a California reservation to attend college, named her “One of 40 Alumni Who Make a Difference.” And this year she was named one of 37 role model dream achievers in the book Dream It Do It: Inspiring Stories of Dreams Come True, alongside President Jimmy Carter, Maya Angelou, Barbara Walters, Yo-Yo Ma, Tiger Woods, and Harrison Ford.

But as much as things change, they still remain the same. Chances that an American Indian growing up on a reservation will attend college are still pretty slim, explains Linton. “Reservations remain violent. There’s an increasing amount of drug abuse, and there’s always been alcohol abuse. Bizarrely enough, many in the casino-rich tribes still aren’t sending their kids to college because now that they have money. They feel they don’t have to go.”

Yet she persists in trying to give American Indian students more opportunities for academic success. But it’s not easy to convince people that they can achieve when the only environment they’ve known hammers home failure.

“People have different needs at different times,” Linton notes. “Within the American-Indian community, those who want to leave the reservations should. Those who want to stay on the reservations should. But all need to be given the opportunity to develop skills.”

And pursue their dreams.

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CONTACTS:

To arrange an interview with Marigold Linton, Graciela Sholander, and/or Sharon Cook, contact Daniel Lauber (email: dl@planningcommunications.com) or Jennifer Atkin (email: jatkin@planningcommunications.com) at 708/366-5200 (Illinois). Also available: Review copies of “Dream It Do It: Inspiring Stories of Dreams Come True.”

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Question by vancestromme: I would like to e-mail barbara walters about patrick swayze?
Its about his cancer i have a idea to help extend his life he may already get enough e-mail to help him but i think that i can help.please e-mail me at vansanst@yahoo.com asap please give me a chance to help him.

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Answer by Rosie O’donnell
look on line abc the View, I e mail the show all the time with comments. He is not doing good. I work in a hospital and his prognosis is very bad. Very sad to say, but dying is a part of life.

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Question by roadmaptoamerica: Did anybody watch the Barbara Walters Special, heaven, where is it?
I was really interested in watching it. I find the subject of heaven and the thereafter to be fascinating.
But, I had to turn it off in the first ten minutes when
Barbara Walters used the fantasy “The wizard of Oz” as example of life after death. I have seen that movie a thousand times, and I never once thought that the land of Oz represented heaven.
The movie is a story of a girl travelling through life in search of her own identy.
I always assumed Barbera Walters to be a buffoon, and she just solidified my assumptions.
cookie Monster, I will not take it back. In my version of heaven, she ain’t there!!!!
DR Sabudu, Did I say that I love the subject of life after death? NOOOOOOO I said I find it interesting. Did I say I thought life after death is a fantasy? NOOOOOOOOOO, I said the the movie was a fantasy. How about giving decent answers, and quite wasting my time with your denigrating comments. save those for the political section.

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Answer by The Cookie Monster
Your gonna take that back after she passes away, aren’t you?

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September 20, 1975. Barbara Walters of NBC’s "Today" and the syndicated "Not for Women Only."

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Committing to Peace: The Successful Settlement of Civil Wars

Why do some civil wars end in successfully implemented peace settlements while others are fought to the finish? Numerous competing theories address this question. Yet not until now has a study combined the historical sweep, empirical richness, and conceptual rigor necessary to put them thoroughly to the test and draw lessons invaluable to students, scholars, and policymakers. Using data on every civil war fought between 1940 and 1992, Barbara Walter details the conditions that lead combatants to

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November Issue of Sister 2 Sister Reveals the 4-1-1 on Lil’ Kim’s $ 1 Million Jewelry Loss

New York, NY (PRWEB) October 16, 2004

Tales of casino fights, ferocious court battles and a singer-starlet that packs heat all punctuate the sizzling 16th Anniversary issue of Sister 2 Sister (S2S) magazine, burning up the newsstands right now.

Lil’ Kim tells S2S publisher Jamie Foster Brown her most recent court battle is nothing but a “witch hunt.” She also claims her innocence in the 2001 case that alleges that she conspired, obstructed justice and perjured herself to cover for a shooting involving members of her entourage

“I think that I was more of a warrior because I was like, no matter what I know I’m going to beat this because I’m innocent,” she said. “You know I have to deal with the cards. I leave it all in God’s hands, and there is nothing I can do about it. I’m very spiritual and I know that God is never going to give me anything that I can’t handle…if anything He will carry it for me.”

While the rapper says she’s relying on the Spirit to get her through the ordeal, she did not hesitate to call the whole ordeal “a continued indictment of hip hop.”

Readers will also hear the inside scoop on how Kim got $ 1 million worth of stolen jewelry back using a tough attorney.

In another exclusive interview, entertainer Jamie Foxx talks about the fight that occurred in a New Orleans casino involving his sister, Deirdre, after a day of filming the Ray Charles movie. Despite witnessing his sister being manhandled by New Orleans police, Foxx says he remains cool.

“If you want me to move, you don’t have to put your hands on me,” Foxx said, recalling the incident. “Then the officer grabs me again and my sister gets in between us. Now he grabs my sister, bashes her in the casino table, pulls out his cuffs and manhandles her. ”

On the Ray Charles movie, Unchain My Heart – Jamie Foxx confirmed that Ray Charles didn’t treat women all that nicely sometimes.

“I think that when you look at a person’s life, with jagged edges and everything like that, that’s what makes a person real,” Foxx said. “That’s why you liked Bill Clinton. He had a little dirt on him, it was not like bad dirt – it was just like he was human.”

Also, in the November issue, Monica explains to S2S why she carries a gun.

“Well, it’s a hobby of mine. I enjoy going to the range,” she said. “I enjoy going to the country and using them and that’s something that I get from my dad. We always did that together.”

Monica also denies rumors that she has romantic ties with Young Buck from G-Unit although he was in her video.    

“Well, you know how our industry is – if you sit at a dinner table more than once, you’re dating,” she said. “He was extremely nice and it was a real, real pleasure meeting him. We were introduced and a week later, the video was shot and it went from there.”

When asked what she’s looking for in a man, Monica was candid.

“The one thing that I need more than anything else is for him to be strong,” she said. “When I say strong, I mean that in a lot of different ways. I think a weak mind falls prey to everything you can imagine. That’s temptation with other women, that’s not being able to provide for his family, that’s not respecting the most important person in my life next to God, which is my mother.”

Also in this month’s 16th anniversary edition of Sister 2 Sister:

Jill Scott talks about meeting Big Bird and opening for Prince in Philly.

Tamera Lowery from “Sister, Sister” is all grown up and is playing a doctor on the Lifetime drama, “Strong Medicine”

Dr. Jeff continues with part 2 of the “baby-mama drama” saga

Jamie Foster Brown is available for interviews on all of these topics and more. For insights, reactions and opinions on the latest topics contact Michelle Starr at 214-523-9088 for booking.

Sister 2 Sister (S2S) is the hottest and most trusted audited entertainment and lifestyle magazine for African American women. It has been in existence for 15 years and is wholly owned by Jamie Foster Brown, “The Barbara Walters of Print,” who built her career in the entertainment industry. Since its modest beginnings as a newsletter for women in the entertainment industry back in 1988, the magazine has developed into one of the most powerful and respected voices in entertainment, focusing on Black celebrity news. Currently distributed in the U.S. and abroad, S2S has achieved phenomenal growth, nearly quadrupling circulation in the last five years. For more information on Sister 2 Sister, log on to http://www.s2smagazine.com.

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THE SPANISH BYE AND MAIN PLOT, 1603 – SIR WALTER RALEIGH’S DOWNFALL (SIR WALTER RALEIGH SERIES)

After the death of Queen Elizabeth I, a Plot was formed by 16 people in a purported effort to deprive King James I of his throne, and in his place, to elevate Lady Arabella Stewart to the position of Queen of England, in his place, and to procure the kidnap of the King.

The plot was discovered, and Sir Walter Raleigh was implicated by Lord Cobham, who had drawn Raleigh into the plot outside Durham House, Raleigh’s London home.

It would appear that the Spanish Bye and Main

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Barbara Walters did a booksigning at Agnes Scott College today, and the bookstore where I work was the bookseller at the event. Unfortunately, photos were not allowed at the event, so here is a shot of an autographed book. I did not actually meet her, but I was one of six people in the room with her as she signed 800 books for the event. I didn’t get to speak to her, but she did make eye contact with me.

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