The Boomer Chronicles

Yours truly is hosting the BloggingBoomers Carnival this week.

Between the Jewish New Year and a day of fasting, Janet at Gen Plus discovers how many more years she has to find a man.

When Barbara Weibel at Hole In The Donut travels she seeks out places of great beauty to renew her soul. Sometimes she finds that beauty in people, like the musician she profiles in this week’s inspirational post, “The Man With the Violin.”

LifeTwo eyes a new UK study that calculates how smoking, high blood pressure, and other health issues subtract from life expectancy. The researchers found that subjects high on the scale of several risk factors could expect to live ten years less than their compatriots who had low blood pressure, low cholesterol, and didn’t smoke.

At Writing Without Periods, Mary points out that some things never change even if you move to “Over The Hillville.” Read about her realization that age doesn’t erase old high school stereotypes in High School Redux.

Over at Contemporary Retirement, Ann kicks off a six-part series, “The 6 Stages of Retirement,” which identifies some of the pitfalls associated with each stage.

Your hair is going gray, your skin seems to be fading to gray, and now the fashion world wants you to wear gray. Can a boomer gal wear this popular neutral color without it dragging her down? Find out all about gray at Fabulous after 40.

We love chocolate, right?  Ever wonder how it is made? Vaboomer.com tells it, from cacao pods to truffles.

Older Americans are normally at the front of the queue for shots against seasonal flu, but not this year. SoBabyBoomer tells us that boomers and older are now last in line for the H1N1 flu shot.

When marketing your business you need to be conscious of the image you want to project as well as how your customers and prospects actually perceive your image. Andrea J. Stenberg at The Baby Boomer Entrepreneur talks about how Dos Equis accomplishes this in her post “Branding Your Business: A Most Interesting Case Study.”

Does life begin at midlife? It sure begins to seem that way when you start meeting some of the women the Midlife Crisis Queen’s been interviewing lately!

Let’s revisit The Boomer Chronicles’ 10 Top Fears about Getting Older.

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