Bloggers consider life’s twists and turns
June 10, 2024
When I attended Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, during the 1960s, I took a class in consumer economics. It changed my life.
I had gotten the idea from my dad about the importance of spending wisely, now here was a field of study and maybe a career in helping people make smart money choices.
I worked for five newspapers in the West and did consumer articles for most of them. My favorite was working for The Anchorage Times writing the “Tell It to Bud” column. Bud was short for ombudsman and I answered readers’ questions, most of them on their consumer problems.
Over the weekend, I went to a reunion at WSU. What fun, what memories. That’s Butch, WSU’s mascot cougar with me in the photo. Go Cougs.
Meanwhile, my blogging friends also are contemplating life’s challenges and different paths.
Rebecca Olkowski
How much is enough? Rebecca Olkowski at BabyBoomster discusses that in an interview with author and comedian Claire Berger. After working with Second City in Chicago, Claire had a 40-year career as a warmup comedian in Los Angeles for over 65 sitcoms. She now lives in Brooklyn and has reinvented herself as a content creator, coach, speaker, and writer. Read and watch their interview here.
Carol Cassara
If you’ve ever had serious second thoughts about a life decision you made, you’ll want to check out Carol Cassara’s blog Carol A. Cassara Writer. This week she reassures us there are “No Wrong Turns.”
Laurie Stone
Have you ever reached a certain age and then can’t believe you’re there? It seems like yesterday you’re young and dewy-eyed and then in no time at all, you’re in that “7th inning stretch” known as the sixties. Still, there are things Laurie Stone, blogging at Laurie Stone Writes, has learned at this age that came along in no other decade, little specks of wisdom she wouldn’t trade for anything. Here are the top six …
Meryl Baer
Our lives have become intertwined with technology and devices seem to run our lives today – computer, phone, TV. But sometimes things go awry, and the result is a series of frustrating phone calls and service calls. Meryl Baer of Musings of a Shore Life spent the past week attempting to fix her technology issues. She briefly relates her dilemma in this week’s post “Unconnected and Unhinged, Sort Of.”
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