Blogging Boomer’s Carnival # 17

They’re here! This week we welcome some exciting fellow bloggers as we host The Blogging Boomer’s Carnival # 17. Here’s a rundown of this week’s top posts from some of the net’s best Boomer Blogs!

You’d think that by midlife boomer guys would have perfected their lovemaking skills, but apparently they still have a lot to learn. Lloyd at Your Drum brings us the list of the 40 Mistakes Men Make when having Sex with Women!

Now, don’t get too busy working on your sex Life that you forget to work on your Brain! At guest blog Sharp Brains you’ll learn about Brain Fitness and find out how to build up a Brain Reserve to protect you from things like Alzheimer’s.

Once your brain feels fit, you might be motivated to take that dream you’ve always had and finally make it a reality. Gen Plus can help you hit the ground running with an extraordinary (and very inexpensive) E-workbook entitled: Keep Dreaming – Creating a Strategic Plan for the Rest of Your Life. It may be one of the best investments you’ll make at 50 plus!

Over at Man-o-pause this week, Nicolette gives us the scoop on another great book. It  shatters the myth that grown ups are done growing, and makes us realize we are only just beginning and can write our own script.

It sounds like a woman named Sara Davidson could have desperately used both these books. After her first career in TV dried up she found herself struggling to put her life back together.  She leapt into second life with money problems and no sex life which can be the norm says So Baby Boomer.

Yes, there’s no doubt that career changes at midlife can be traumatic, especially if your new career disappears (or goes to India) just as you are settling in. Luckily David Houle, noted futurist has joined the Life Two editorial team contributing a weekly column on the future’s impact on second career choices, and talks about this very problem this week.

For some, their second career unexpectedly becomes looking after mom or dad. Over at at Contemporary Retirement you can read one woman’s account of being Caught in the Middle- a member of the sandwich generation of boomers who are caring for an aging parent whilst still having responsibility for one of more children under the age of 18.

And as if you haven’t got enough on your plate Rhea at The Boomer Chronicles tells us how Americans over a certain age receive statements from social security every year around their birthday. In the birthday greeting the SSA threatens to cut you off from ever collecting retirement benefits. Happy Birthday!

So, what’s a boomer to do? I Remember JFK would say forget about all this stress and think back to happier times. This week  Ron takes a nostalgic look back at a beloved neighborhood friend …the milkman. Remember when they delivered milk in pint or quart bottles daily? Check out this blog and find out the interesting reason why.

Now we’ve got to admit that at 50 plus you’re less likely to be buying milk and more likely to be buying vitamins. Guest blog Personal Finance Advice brings us 10 Simple Ways to Save on Vitamins.

Unfortunately it’s not just vitamins that can be costly. Once you are retired, everything seems to add up. In fact, The high cost of retirement prompted one woman to choose to retire abroad. Read about her boomer life in China at at guest blog Wisebread!

O.K., so maybe the thought of retiring in China is not for you, but you’ve got to have some excitement in your life to keep you going to 100 and Rhea has found it! At The Rearview Mirror she blogs about the Rock n’ Roll Boomer concert scene. Can you guess which aging rock star looks hotter than ever without the big hair?

Enjoy the show!