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| Author... Contributor to We Magazine and Maturity Matters. |
At 64, Marcia Barhydt started writing for women over 50. She is a monthly contributor to Kalon Women, WE Magazine for Women, BoomerCafe, Boomers Forever, and Women's Post.
Marcia's new book, Celebrate Age! is a collection of her thoughts, rants, raves and wisdoms learned after 50. Marcia lives in Brampton and is the proud mother of 2 grown daughters, Heather and Allison, and the even prouder grandmother of her 3 "perfect granddaughters".
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| After a 32-year career as a Flight Attendant with Air Canada , Marcia Barhydt took a huge leap and started her own company, Willowtree. "I had no idea what I was doing and I was certain that I'd never be able to pull it all together. But I did".
Marcia lives in Brampton and is the proud mother of 2 grown daughters, Heather and Allison, and the even prouder grandmother of her 3 "perfect granddaughters".
Marcia has also writen articles for - Turn Your Customers Into Your Sales Force! eGuide -
It's That Simple - 7 Articles About Real Life Customer Service
Coffee -Tea or Me? and many more...
The future Marcia? “With my new book, Celebrate Age! I'll be able to begin speaking to women's groups about how incredible this stage of my life is. I want all women to know how wise and capable we are. I had no idea of how much I was capable of doing.
I want all women to know that they can do it too. I want women to truly celebrate the better half of their lives".
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Throughout my life, I've been fortunate to have been able to reinvent myself when I had to. After my marriage ended, for example; when my kids went off to university; when I lived on my own for the first time in my life; when I retired from a 32 year career; when I started... |
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If we boomers are to continue to be successful at reinventing ourselves, then we need to make some decisions about how we're going to choose to reinvent ourselves physically.
This continues to be a question affecting women for the most part, but I believe there are many men who also have concerns about their physical appearance as we age. We women have a much heavier burden in choosing how we look because of the dominance of our "young is beautiful" culture. |
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This past weekend the nasty question about funding national pension plans has once again risen its ugly head, this time promoted by former governor of the Bank of Canada, David Dodge, who says we Canadians need to have an 'adult conversation' about the future of government services. |
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I'm an advocate of aging in place. I've come to support this alternative not from the negative fears of nursing homes that my own mother felt, but rather from a deep understanding that both our personal life preferences and our public government agendas are better served by keeping us all in our homes for as long as possible. |
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