Liz Pulliam Weston has written an update to the profile of me she wrote for her MSN Money column several years back entitled Retired at 50: Where Are They Now?

Juicy Excerpt #1: The stock market crash didn’t affect Rob and Mary Bennett at all. That’s because Rob, who handles the family’s investments, got out of stocks entirely in the mid-1990s.

Juicy Excerpt #2: Rob’s investment Web site, Passionsaving.com, hasn’t taken off the way he’d hoped. That’s a problem, because the Bennetts had been counting on the extra income to help pay for the college educations of their two home-schooled sons, now 7 and 9.