Winners of The Green Study “What’s on the B Side of That 45?” Contest!

Thank you to everyone who submitted entries to The Green Study “What’s on the B Side of That 45?” Contest. As I’ve beat the subject of being middle-aged to death on this blog, I decided to drag some other old fogies into the mix. People really put on their reading glasses, hiked up their polyester pants and put what they could remember down in words. Impressive, really. And when I can find their essays, I’ll be posting them one by one on this blog over the next few weeks.

Since I have the flu and can barely function, making decisions about the winners was tough. In addition to the top three winners, I’ve added 3 honorable mentions and thrown in some prizes for fun.

1st Prize goes to Dave at 1pointperspective for “The Shoe Polish Chronicles”, which will be published next week as a guest post on this blog. He will be sent one Green Study Coffee Mug, a cheesy Minneapolis postcard and I will make a $100 donation to the American Red Cross on his behalf to his local Red Cross Chapter.

2nd Prize goes to Kirizar at The Dust Season for “Personals vs. Real Estate: Needs Work, Financing Available”, which will be published next week as a guest post on this blog. She will be sent one Green Study Coffee Mug, a pathetic Minneapolis postcard and I will make a $75 donation to the American Red Cross on her behalf to her local Red Cross Chapter.

3rd Prize goes to Fransi at 365 and Counting for “Aging Gets Better with Age”, which will be published next week as a guest post on this blog. She will be sent one Green Study Coffee Mug, a lame Minneapolis postcard and I will make a $50 donation to the Red Cross on her behalf to her local Red Cross Chapter or their International Disaster Response fund.

Honorable Mentions: These three entries, listed in no particular order, included a poem, conflicted internal dialogue and inspirational thoughts. Unique and expressive, I couldn’t leave them out. I will publish each of these as guest posts to my blog, send them a Green Study Coffee Mug, Minneapolis postcard and donate $25 each to the American Red Cross on their behalf of their local Red Cross Chapter or their International Disaster Response fund.

Ruth at Travelling True North with “Life in the Midlife Teens”.

Meryl at Six Decades and Counting…Life Reinvented with “My Time is Now”.

Don with a “mid-life crisis” poem.

Thank you to everyone who participated in my bit of midlife silliness – enjoy the upcoming posts over the next few weeks!