Living Without Borders

More Booming Bloggers - Carnival #7

January 29th, 2007

They’re not quite done yet. Carnival number 7 kicked off today from So Baby Boomer. Again a lot of fun from a lot of different angles. Like, uh, carbon footprints?

Too far out there? Personally, I always think blogging about money and banking is sort of gross, but maybe that’s just cause I keep falling onto blogs written by kids who work in lower Manhattan and live in Hoboken, nothing wrong with those things - but it’s not the kind of banking I want to talk about. That said, as funny as parts of the Boomers Carnival is, they also put together terrifically useful bits of advice, like this straight-up talk from Rearview Mirror, and from man-o-pause, who links to a couple of excellent articles. One in Mensight magazine, and another at Lifesignature.com. I’m talking to people all the time who are making major decisions about changing careers late in life, many of them because they have retired. Of course, I’m still talking about that job opportunities button up above, but both articles add useful insight to what is not so much a scary process, as it is a process we just don’t seem to have time to think about. Some things become so easily clear when we, or someone else makes a simple checklist.

By way of transparency, I’ll admit it. I write a lot of this blog for my mom, who is going to retire soon. She is computer savvy, but I think that she thinks blogs are just about politics and personal ranting by teenagers. I, myself, am almost a baby-boomer, just a few few years shy so my concerns are not with, well, Bon Jovi. I spend a lot of time not just talking to people about moving to Mexico and Panama and other countries, but also about blogging. Blogging is sort of the online equivalent to moving to Mexico, right ? Well, sort of… the point is, the Booming Bloggers are having a carnival every week or so because life is good, and worth living and worth blogging about. There are probably blogs out there for depressed people, but I haven’t read those. When I am reading adults talking honestly about life and living and everything that involves, it’s frankly useful. It might even be… inspiring.

Entry Filed under: Other Blogs We Like, Retirement