BloggingBoomers Carnival #2
Welcome to the second BloggingBoomers Carnival, a weekly roundup of the top stories on the top blogs dedicated to baby boomer interests. The BloggingBoomers Carnival will appear each week at a different boomer blog. Here’s what we have for you this week:
Do the words “nursing home” give you the willies? They should. Read more here at The Boomer Chronicles.
Boomer parents and grandparents can help children learn through play. Here are some gift ideas for the children in your life from So Baby Boomer.
Hot industry sectors to watch in 2007 lie in the transportation sector, particularly rail and vessel transport, according to Gen Plus: Reinventing 50 Plus. With 5,000 jobs to be filled in rail alone, 50-plussers may find themselves in demand. “I’ve been working on the railroad” may well become “I’m going to be working for the railroad.”
It may be time to change the definition of “middle age,” says LifeTwo. Believe it or not, a number of dictionaries consider you to be middle-aged if you are between “40 and 60.”
Micki at The Rearview Mirror was taken aback when “my stepfather introduced my mother and I to someone we hadn’t met before. The new acquaintance remarked that she thought we were sisters at first glance. Great flattery for my Mother, not so great for me.” The experience leads Micki to ponder looks and growing older.
Learn how to levitate for the holidays! This and other magic tricks can be found at Contemporary Retirement. Entertain the kids and grandkids.
Get ready for some tough love, midlife men. Here’s How to Escape a Midlife Crisis (Or, If You Really Wanted to Change You Would) from Man-o-Pause.
According to a recent AARP poll, one-sixth of women in their 50s prefer men in their 40s. There are some very good reasons why older women may prefer younger men, according to Your Drum.
The BloggingBoomers Carnival will be posted next Monday at Man-o-Pause.
December 11th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
I want to learn how to levitate.
December 11th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
I thought that sounded cool, too. When you learn how, photograph yourself levitating and send it to me.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
What age range actually constitutes a ‘boomer’? I’ll be 49 tomorrow.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Bice, First, happy birthday. Second, you are a MAJOR baby boomer. Boomers are born between 1946 and 1964, so they are now 42 to 60. If you want my advice, read The Boomer Chronicles. It will ease you into the
whole devastation that is old age.
December 11th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Oh! What a terrible word, “devatation.” I REFUSE to grow ‘old’ or up. I may have aged but I am not old, I don’t care what my daughters say. ::grin::
December 11th, 2006 at 8:18 pm
I would like to look younger than I do, but don’t want to appear foolish trying to pretend I’m 30. (not that your mom would do that) And 50 is definitely middle something!
December 11th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
Hehehehe, those are some great links (even for the non-baby-boomers)!
December 12th, 2006 at 1:20 am
I’ve been just chuckling over the new Kaiser Permanente (a California HMO) ads — 50 is the new 30, 70 is the new 40! Oh my. I guess rates will be going up. And I guess I must be in my very early 30’s.
December 12th, 2006 at 2:38 am
BloggingBoomers Carnival #2…
is being hosted at the Boomer Chronicles. Welcome to the second BloggingBoomers Carnival, a weekly roundup of the top stories on the top blogs dedicated to baby boomer interests. The BloggingBoomers Carnival will appear each week at a different boomer…
December 16th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
Found an article you may be interested in: “New high-risk hobby: dining out.” It’s on a website called The Boomer Blog at http://www.boomergenerationblog.com.
Lots of interesting articles…
Enjoy!
December 27th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
I’m enjoying your blog. How can I submit articles of interest? Have I missed the instructions?
Maryan
http://aginggrandparents.suite101.com
April 9th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
hi just wrote a good book called a baby boomer’s look back. funny, offers some alzheimer’s tips , faces issues we all had growing up. sex, race , war, family, spankings etc. carnij70@yahoo.com if interested thanks jerry the author.
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September 5th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
[...] Thought it would be good to see what other boomers are blogging about. This is a a carnival which is a collection of several postings from different blogs. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Hot industry sectors for baby boomers to watch in 2007 lie in the transportation sector, particularly rail and vessel transport. With 5,000 jobs to be filled in rail alone, 50-plussers may find themselves in demand. “I’ve been working on the railroad” may well become “I’m going to be working for the railroad.”read more | digg story [...]
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Thanks for the roundup of news about boomers. How do your readers like these collections of stories? Do they like them or do they prefer to read a short blog about a topic?
I’m new to blogging. I started a month ago. It’s fun to learn to do.
Rita Robison, Consumer Specialist
The Survive and Thrive Boomer Guide
http://boomersurvive-thriveguide.typepad.com
March 15th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Hi rita the readers really seem to get a lot of laughs from my stories. My book a baby boomer’s look back also gets people remembering their own funny stories and experiences. I am partnering with the National Alzheimer’s asoiciation because they feel that this kind of looking back is beneficial as is all remebering . I have also made arrangements for proceeds from the book to go to the Association. Oh blogs are good also and fun There are so many aspects to the life that we knew ;and in a story you can include so much from the buildings we were housed in and schools we attended to size of families, cousins , friends, puberty spankings, funny jobs we had first kiss, rejection and more. It is also philosophical and toches on how history has mis represented the 60’s as only a time of prtesting a war and smoking pot. we from the 50’s and 60’s know the boom was almost everything but that. keep the blog going though it’s very good and entertaining.
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