Blogathon week 3 recap: Bloggers share mid-life reinventions on SecondAct

This week marked the half way point of the Blogathon – we’re on the downward slope and it feels great.

In the past seven days, bloggers had fun swapping guest posts; you can read the guest post that Portland writer and writing teacher Sarah Moon wrote for WordCount on optimizing your blog for mobile devices, and my post on Sarah’s blog on writing lessons from five famous authors.

The week’s other highlight came when SecondAct, Entrepreneur Magazine‘s website for people over 40, invited Blogathon bloggers to share their second act stories in posts on their respective blogs on Wednesday. I updated a post that I’ve run before on how blogging helped me reinvent my career.

Dozens of people shared their stories stories of life and career reinventions, including Arizona author, writer and blogger Jackie Dishner, who’s pictured above riding the bike that figures prominently into her second act story. Instead of recounting all of them here, I’m going to point you to the recap I did for SecondAct:

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Every May, I host a contest on my personal blog challenging both beginning and experienced bloggers to write every day of the month. Close to 250 people are participating in the fifth annual blogathon, many of them in their 40s and older.

SecondAct.com invited these bloggers to share posts this week about how they’ve reinvented themselves. Their stories about following passions to change careers, take up new sports, re-enter the dating scene, lose weight or become a parent for the first time are intimate, heart-felt and often inspiring.

Read the entire story on SecondAct: Bloggers Share Their Second Act Stories