Marcia Barhydt
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After a 32-year career as a Flight Attendant with Air Canada, Marcia Barhydt started her own company, Willowtree, and became a customer service trainer.

Willowtree evolved to WillowWords when Marcia started writing a bi-weekly customer service column for The Brampton News and freelanced for them also.

Marcia's first monthly article was for Timeless Woman and it became a soapbox for Marcia's thoughts about her life and the issues that we need to address and celebrate.

Marcia is now a monthly contributor to Huffington Post, WE Magazine for Women, Kalon Women, Boomer Cafe and Women's Post.

She writes about issues of Baby Boomers and women over 40, including the prejudice of ageism, as well as the joys and challenges of being older, even being over 90.

She writes marketing materials and web content for other
business women.

Marcia's first book, Celebrate Age, is a collection of articles from Timeless Woman and her second book, One Small Voice, is a collection of articles about the bias of ageism and the plusses of being an older woman.

Marcia is the proud mother of 2 adult daughters, Heather and
Allison and an even prouder of Andra, Nattie and Maren, her 3 perfect granddaughters.

Blog Entries by Marcia Barhydt

The 103-Year-Old Who Feels 20

(0) Comments | Posted November 2, 2012 | 6:31 PM

Have you ever wondered what a birthday cake would look like with 100 or even 103 candles on it? Lit and ready to blow out with a wish? It'd have to be a pretty big cake I think!

I've seen such a cake on the day my family and family...

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Finding Love and Sex After 60

(0) Comments | Posted October 4, 2012 | 1:00 AM

How many of us, especially when we were younger, have looked at our parents or grandparents and shook our heads, not understanding how they could possibly still be together? The thought of them actually loving each other probably didn't even enter our minds.

The still common perception about "old" love...

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Is 90 the New 60?

(3) Comments | Posted August 27, 2012 | 1:00 AM

For the past few years, I've been writing about Baby Boomers; how much they have to give, their knowledge and wisdom, their value and the prejudice of ageism as applied to these boomers.

Boomers are a pretty hot item now as more and more reach their retirement age. But Boomers...

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We Celebrate Baby Boomers -- Why Not 90-Year-Olds?

(14) Comments | Posted August 9, 2012 | 12:22 PM

All the news these days is about Baby Boomers and about how they're changing the face of aging with an in-your-face attitude. Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, make up a huge demographic, a total of over 75 million in the United States. And since...

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