BloggingBoomers Midlife Blog Carnival turns 75 right here at LifeTwo

Road trips, remembrances and looking good

BloggingBoomers is a collection of bloggers who focus on midlife issues. Below are this week's stories and each link takes you to a different baby boomer blog.

First up is our co-founder "The Boomer Chronicles" who asks, "Do you remember penny candy? Neither does The Boomer Chronicles. But go ahead and reminisce about other candy favorites from childhood."

I Remember JFK shares this..." I have vague memories of nursery-rhyme-type records played on our portable player. When the Beatles arrived in February, 1964, I was primed and ready to get into their music. It was lightweight, fun, and easily remembered for later singing in the side yard. My favorite early Beatles songs were "She Loves You" and the bluesier "I Saw Her Standing There." That latter song was rock and roll every bit as hard as anything the Stones were putting out at the time."

The subject of a thousand jokes, and the bane of married life, in-laws get a bad rap. Find out how in-laws (that includes mothers) can keep some marriages together at This Marriage Thing.

Dorothy was 82. Bob was 95. Both had dementia. Both lived in a nursing home. When they fell in love and, horror of horrors, started having sex, all hell broke loose... Find out why over at Contemporary Retirement.

So Baby Boomer shares this observation: Boomers can make a huge difference by offering encouragement, comfort and support to children enduring a time of profound emotional, physical or financial distress. Learn how from a man who was one of those children and has now written a book, "God's Hand," to help children living in severe distress today.

Want to look stylish, but have a few boomer bulges here that make it difficult to know what to wear? Then visit the Glam Gals at Fabulous after 40 for some great tips on what to wear to avoid looking fat.

And if you want to look stylish, you don't even have to leave the comforts of your own home. More specifically, GenPlus emphatically states that you NEVER have to step into a cramped dressing room again. Janet Wendy discovers the bizarrely voyeuristic, yet satisfying delights of "virtual" shopping with a "virtual model".

The Midlife Crisis Queen says the best is yet to come, and says why.

Don't Gel Yet noted that many people posted and Tweeted about Tim Russert that it seemed sensible to describe what it was like at his wake. It was pretty amazing. They posted about it here too.

Finally, LifeTwo is celebrating the quintessential American experience, the summer road trip, by asking "What are the greatest road trip movies of all time?"

Know a good baby boomer blog? List it in the comments section below.