Gary Tetz
Gary Tetz is multimedia consultant at Consonus Healthcare Services. He was a columnist for I Advance Senior Care / Long-Term Living from 2005-2012.
Not home for the holidays
Failing to recapture the magic of your holiday memories can cast a melancholy feeling over all that you do in December. Read More » Friendlytown, USA
Gary Tetz There's a danger in being called the best of something. Because once it happens, you actually have to live up to it. My town, the Read More » Testing the tears
I don’t trust those “scientists.” Let me say that right up front. But rumor has it they’re working on a better way to do diabetes testing, and I say Read More » Businesspeople: Learn how to mock the wire
Ah, the glory and beauty of Netflix. It reaches me where I live—literally. And then it grabs whole chunks of my time and life by selecting intriguing Read More » A simple plan
Gary Tetz I have a coffee mug that says “Simplify.” I don't know how to obey that command, short of pouring the scalding hot beverage directly Read More » A thing of beauty is a $230,000 joy forever
Perhaps English Romantic poet John Keats said it first, or at least best: “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its lovliness increases; it Read More » Help not wanted
I have a friend who hates her job. Really hates it. She cares for an elderly gentleman in his home, several times a week while he sleeps. Her tasks Read More » ‘The Six Million Dollar Dog’
Gary Tetz When I was a strapping young lad of 14 or so, one of my favorite TV shows was The Six Million Dollar Man. Read More » Hubert’s Test
Hubert H. Humphrey, the 38th vice president of our increasingly un-United States, believed some crazy things. One of them was that the moral test of Read More » Broken hearts and death panels
Perhaps my favorite philosophers, the Bee Gees, said it best. How can you mend a broken heart? How can a loser ever win? It’s hard to write Read More » My healthcare success story
I just had a fantastic healthcare experience. I know you don’t hear that phrase a lot these days, but it’s absolutely true. A friendly welcome. Read More » Departures
How much time do you spend in a typical day observing the departure area of your local airport? If you're like me, probably not a lot. For one Read More » Customer service 101
When I returned to my hotel room in a large American city recently, something seemed wrong. I just had that queasy feeling. A quick inventory of my Read More » The problem with a Medicaid obesi-fee
You’ve heard of a flat fee. Now wacky Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is proposing a fat fee—a $50 penalty on some enrollees in the state’s Medicaid program Read More » Not so Easy Rider
Whenever I need to get some clarity in life, I have two choices: either visit a therapist or Canada in winter. Not Vancouver, where I grew up. Read More » A ‘Hero’ takes a fall
I don’t know where I’ve been, or under which rock I’ve been hiding, but I just learned that Guitar Hero will soon join pet rocks, Britney Spears, and Read More » Grilled cheese and apologies
Editor’s note: This is the moment you’ve surely all been waiting for: Gary Tetz is now blogging for Long-Term Living. Be sure to look for his posts Read More » Acceptibel Erurr
Here's a little nugget of inconvenient truth you won't find nestled in the lyrics of “Frosty the Snowman”-the holiday season is a perverse and Read More » Just one more question
Like Lieutenant Columbo, the great TV detective, Long-Term Living columnist Gary Tetz (Funny You Should Ask) always has one more question. In this Read More » A Glass Act
We've already lost confidence in our economy, government, news media, and eggs. Now at the risk of shattering your one remaining illusion, I'm going Read More » Just one more question
Like Lieutenant Columbo, the great TV detective, Long-Term Living columnist Gary Tetz (Funny You Should Ask) always has one more question. In this Read More » ‘The Decision’
I'd been out of town. Out of the country, actually. I'm not saying exactly where, because I don't want those of you employed by gossip magazines to Read More » Just one more question
Like Lieutenant Columbo, the great TV detective, Long-Term Living columnist Gary Tetz (Funny You Should Ask) always has one more question. In this Read More » The letter
Every day except Sunday, I walk expectantly to the mailbox. Sometimes I'm accompanied by my adorable dog, Fizbo. Sometimes I go alone, just to Read More » Just one more question
Like Lieutenant Columbo, the great TV detective, Long-Term Living columnist Gary Tetz (Funny You Should Ask) always has one more question. In Read More » The Something-for-Everyone Channel
I wish the act of writing was more like curling-the Olympic sport, not the hairstyling ritual. I would just pick up a word, stare at it for a few Read More » Just one more question
Like the great TV detective Columbo, Long-Term Living columnist Gary Tetz (Funny You Should Ask) always has one more question. In this bimonthly Read More » Happy holidays
It's finally over. I'm not talking about this miserable decade, or Jay Leno's lame show, or Tiger Woods' dream to someday serve as executive Read More » Just one more question
Like the great TV detective Columbo, Long-Term Living columnist Gary Tetz (Funny You Should Ask) always has one more question. In this bimonthly Read More » 