Elderblogs

This is the Time Goes By blogroll, known here as the Elderbloggers List - hundreds of blogs written by people who are 50 and older, each one carefully selected for ita excellent content. Check out some of them; you will be glad you did.

Every two or three months, new elderblogs are added, at which time it is announced with a list of them in a regular post on Time Goes By. Last updated 14 November 2009.

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1 Woman's Vu
20th Century Woman
The 70-Something Blog
85 and Change!
2020 Hindsight
Advanced Style
Advertising to Baby Boomers
Aenodia's Journal
Age and Disability in America
Ageism in America

Ageless Marketing
Aging Maven
Airy Persiflage
A Little Red Hen
All the Pages Are My Days
Almost There
Along the Way
Always Question
Ambivablog
Amen With a T

American Digest
The Ancient One
And the Beat Goes On
Anxiety, Panic & Health
Arrrgh!
A Shelter From the Storm
As I Was Saying...
Autumn Cottage Diarist
Auxiliary Memory
Awaiting Buddha

B&H Ranch Journal
Babble On
Barbara's Blog
Bayou Quilts
BearNaked
Berkeley Blog
Berry Blog
Betsy Devine: Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Peculiar
Better Than I Ever Expected
Beverly, Use Your Words

Beyond the Fields We Know
Big John
Birds on a Wire
Bitterroot and Bergamot
Blethers
The Blog Brothers
Blog of Ages
Blowin' in the Wind
Boogie Street
Boomers

Boomers and Beyond
Burningbird
Busha Full of Grace
By Bea's Bedside
Cab Drollery
Capitol Hill Blue
The Cassandra Pages
The Cataract Club
Caturday
CBreaux Speaks

Cathy Knits and More
Celia's Blue Cottage
Changing Aging
Changing Places
Cheerful Monk
Cherry Blossom Memories
Chez Namastenancy
The Chinese Mirror
Chris Pirillo
Chuckography

cilesfineline
Cinderellen's Corner
Clothes Line
Collaborative Conversations
Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie
Cop Car's Beat
Costa de la Luz Gardening
Country Roads
Cousin Lucy's Spoon
The Crone Speaks

cut back: facing ageism
The Cyberspace Dawdler
Daisy's Dead Air
Danny Schechter, News Dissector
Daring to Write
Darlene's Hodgepodge
Deborama
The Demijon Blog
dept. of nance
Desert's Child

Dick Jones' Patteran Pages
Direland
Doc Searls Weblog
The Doctor Is In
Dogwalk Musings
Don't Gel Too Soon
Don't Tell the Children
Down the Lane
down to earth
driftwoodinspiration

The Dry Bones Blog
Dying Man's Daily Journal
Eclectic World
Edward J. Renehan Jr.
ElderExercise
Elder Guru
ElderWomanBlog
Ellouisestory
Elusive Abstractions
Embodied Aging

Endment
Entitled to Know
Everything and Nothing
Evolving Space
The Fabulous Geezersisters' Blog
Family Finance
Fat Old Artist
First 50 Words
Five String Guitar
Five Wells

Fools Rush In
Fragments From Floyd
Frances Ellen Speaks
Francine Hardaway's Blog
Fried Okra Productions
Friko's Musings
From Where I Sit
From a Mountain Hollow
Full Fathom Five
The Future of Aging Blog

A Garden Carried in the Pocket
Gen Plus
geriatric1927 (a vlog)
GoldenDaze- Ginnie
goldenrod's thoughts
Gooznews on Health
gordon.coale
Grandma Henke
Granny Geek
Grannymar

Granny Sue's News and Reviews
Growin' Up in Maine
Grumpy Old Bookman
Gullible's Travels
Happening Here
Hasty Ruminations
Hattie's Web
Havenwood
Having Fun Until I Die
Head Rambles

Here Still Running
The Hicks Place
HinesSight
Homer's Odd Isn't He
Hootin' Anni's
How to Change the World
Humorless Bitch
Imagine
I'm Over 50 - So What!
INSITEVIEW - Tom Shugart's Weblog

I Remember JFK
I Speak of Dreams
Jacob's Blog
Jerry's Blog - Because Wit Happens
Jive Chalkin'
Joe Bageant
John Wills Lloyd
Journal of a Writing Man
Journey to a New Life
The Joy of Six

Just An Ordinary Gal
Kalilily Time
Kansas Prairie
KateThoughts
Kalyns' Kitchen
Kay's Thinking Cap
Keeping the Dream
Kenyo of Pensacola Kick It Up a Notch
Leaves of Grass

Lee Cantrell Speaks
Legacy Matters
Leslie's Latest News
Letters For George
Letters From New England
Lewis Grossberger
LiberalPro
Life Begins at Sixty-Five
Life in London After 70
Life on a Southern Farm

Life on Peach Eater Creek
Life on Tiger Mountain
Limerick Savant
Linda's Backroad Musings
Linda's World
Listics
Living in the Bonus Round
Loose Leaf Notes
Lucy Volume II
MamaFlo's Place

Marion's Blog
Marja-Leena Rathje
Mary Contrary's Blog
Mature Landscaping Mature Not Senile
Meanderings
Me and the Cat
Middle Age Ramblings
MiiiKee's-World
Minding Our Elders

Mind Trips
Mining Nuggets
MizMellOnline: The Mediator
Mode Shift
Mostly Anecdotal
MrKen45sWorld
Musings From Grandma's Attic
Musings From the Left Coast
The Musings of a Middle-Aged Woman
Musings of an Old Man

My Elder Advocate
My Journey to Mindfulness
My Mom's Blog
My Sister Was a St. Bernard
Mystic Bourgeoisie
My Thoughts
Mzodell's Page
Nellie's Garden
Never Too Late!
Never Ending Journey

The New Old Age
The New Sixty
NightMonkeyShines
North Country Maturing Gardener
Not Dead Yet!
Now's the Time
Nuggets
Octogenarian
Off the Grid
O'Folks

older but no wiser
The Old Hippies Groovy Blog
One Day At a Time
One Good Move
Only Connect
The Other Side of Sixty
Ouroboros
Out of the Cube
Patient's Progress
Pa^2 Patois

Panchromatica
Past Imperfect
Paula's House of Toast
Paulz Blog
Peace in Retirement
Peevish Pen
Photoblogging in Paris
A Piece of My Mind
The Pomegranate Tiger
Possumlady Place

Postcards
prairiemary
prairie point
Pratie Place
Privilege
Projections
Pure Land Mountain
Rainy Day Thoughts
Rambling Woods
Randall Butisingh's Weblog

Rants By Ronni (not me)
Real Sage Advice
Red Nose
Remembering Matters
Retired and Restless
Retirement Daze
Retirement Rocks
Rinkly Rimes
Ripples
Robert Reich's Blog

Rockbridge Times
Ruminations
Sablonneuse
Sacred Ordinary
Santiago Dreaming
Self Sufficient Steward
Self- Winding
Senior Health Moment
Shadow of Diogenes
Shattered Manor

Silver Fox Whispers
SistahCraft
Sixty and Single in Seattle
Small Change
Something to Say
Spinning
Spotlight on Elder Abuse
The Stamp Collection Roundup
State of Grace
Stealthmode

Steve's 2 Cents
Still Clickin
Susan*Jayne
Sustainable Gardening
Suzzwords
Switched at Birth
Sylvia From Over the Hill
Take Joy!
Talking About Weaving
Tasting Rhubarb

The Tempered Optimist
Texas Trifles
There's Always Something
Things To Ponder
Thinking Out Loud
Think on It!
The Three Rs - Reading, Ranting and Recipes
Thrifty and Proud of It
Time's Fool
Traveling on Fumes

TravelinOma's Library
Tread Softly
True Blue Quilting Nana
Unsilent Generation
Use My Sky
Velvet Sacks
A View From England
The View From Here
Walking Winston
Wasted Days Wasted Nites

Watermark - A Poet's Notebook
Wegads - Ed Weiland's Blog
Wellfleet ChezSven Blog
What's the Story in Dalamory?
The Whinging Geezer
Who Moved My Dentures?
Wintersong
Women's Voices For Change
Wood s Lot
Worlds Touch

Writerquake
Writing Away on Cedar Key
Writing From the Hip
The WYSIWYG Blog
Xtreme English
Yum Yum Cafe
The Zees Go West

Posted by Ronni Bennett at 06:08 AM | Permalink

Comments

Your readers might want to have some fun with our unorthodox, co-op book writing project at blog of ages:

http://www.blogofages.net/

However, it this plug is too blatant, just delete me.

George

Posted by: George Phenix on Jul 29, 2009 12:12:46 PM

Thanks for adding me to the Elderbloggers' list. I am honored to be in such fine company.

Posted by: Hattie on Jul 30, 2009 2:58:44 PM

Ronni, FYI, I just clicked on DadsTomatoGarden blog on your list and it has been removed.

Posted by: Marge on Aug 1, 2009 7:38:57 AM

I am a grandmother who has raised my grandson. I am an advocate for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren and have published a book about my story called: "Has Anyone Seen My Daisy?" I hope to have my second book: Born Into Love in print before Christmas. I believe people tend to make life too complicated and don't look enough at the basics. I think politicians tend to play off this and complicate matters even more.

Posted by: Peggy OConnor on Aug 21, 2009 9:23:42 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_hall_meeting
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A town hall meeting is an informal public meeting derived from the traditional town meetings of New England. Similarly to those meetings, everybody in a community is invited to attend, voice their opinions, and hear the responses from public figures and elected officials, although attendees rarely vote on an issue.
We live in the greatest country in the world. We have the best healthcare in the world. Yes, you can argue and complain when you don’t like something, but the point is that you are free to complain. There is talk of people being denied treatment. Truthfully, a hospital cannot, by law, deny anyone treatment. Emergency rooms are filled with sore throats, flu, etc, not emergencies because people think they can get the insurance company to pay for their visit.

My daughter died of a malignant brain tumor when she was 28 years old and her son was just 14 months old. The insurance company stretched the rules to allow her be in a chemotherapy program that we hoped would save her life. Though she was considered terminal, there was hope (a 70% success rate) but she was in the 30% and came home after nine months of treatment and died at home in hospice.

I have raised two generations to adulthood. I am just beginning to do the things I want to do, like writing. Statistics say I can live until I’m 90. Will those statistics change under universal healthcare. You bet they will. I will be “counseled” regarding acceptance of impending death. After all, I don’t want to be a burden to society. But I will raise my voice today to say that I have a lotta living left to do. I have a lotta love to give. I have a lotta energy to spend helping others. I will not accept that a bunch of so called adults in Congress who are acting more like adolescents can tell me when I should die!

We don’t need to reduce the levels of care to decrease the profits of the insurance companies. People should step to the podium to say their piece at these meetings.. I do blame the politicians who are fighting and back-biting, not for us, but for their egos. Have you noticed the number of Congressmen who are senior citizens? Perhaps they should be counseled to consider the end of their lives as they are suggesting for us. I don’t think the world would miss them all that much.

If you agree, let me know, because I intend to make my voice heard. I think everyone should take 10 steps back and return to the tables to talk and work together to find an answer. Healthcare can be fixed next year in a sane, logical manner. By the way, they say that healthcare accounts for 6% of the total budget. Perhaps they could take some of the millions, billions, and trillions they are giving to banks and auto companies and put it into healthcare? Just a thought

Posted by: Peggy OConnor on Aug 24, 2009 4:43:39 PM

I feel very honored to be associated with Elderbloggers. With the ever-growing list of contributors I'm always amazed when I see a new reader come to my site who has linked to it from here.

Posted by: MissKris on Sep 8, 2009 9:31:17 PM

This is great that there are so many of us. And what a varied bunch we are!

Posted by: Hattie on Oct 2, 2009 7:27:04 PM

Hi there.

Peter Radsliff, CEO of Presto has a blog on Elders and Technology.

Definitely worth a read.

Best,
Brook

Posted by: Brook Lenox on Nov 11, 2009 7:24:29 PM

Thank you for mention Leaves of Grass. It's an honour to me to be associated with Elderbloggers.

Posted by: Sonia Mascaro on Nov 13, 2009 5:58:21 AM

Still didn't make the cut.
"Oh well, we'll catch up some other time"

Posted by: mythster on Nov 13, 2009 8:50:47 AM

FWIW one of my favorite blogs when she wrote there was "Mother Pie" (on your list here) but she doesn't blog there any more. She's moved to: "MyEyeSees" http://www.flickr.com/photos/myeye/

Also, Claude doesn't blog at "Blogging In Paris" though her old blog is still there, too. Her new blog is: "Photoblogging in Paris" http://photoblogginginparis.com/

Posted by: joared on Nov 14, 2009 2:44:54 AM

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