Tag: Marcia Barhydt

Mandatory Retirement Flies Out The Window

Mandatory Retirement Flies Out The Window

| February 5, 2013 | 1 Comment

We boomers are lucky in so many ways. We’ve had people blaze paths ahead of us. We’ve been the beneficiaries. And it’s still happening, as BoomerCafé contributor Marcia Barhydt writes in Mandatory Retirement Flies Out The Window.

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Frank talk about sexuality among baby boomers

Frank talk about sexuality among baby boomers

| December 21, 2012 | 2 Comments

If BoomerCafé is about baby boomers with active lifestyles, then this piece by Marcia Barhydt is about us! Because she addresses the question: Sex in your Sixties and Beyond?

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Staying positive and young in mind and spirit

Staying positive and young in mind and spirit

| October 7, 2012 | 1 Comment

We like this advice about staying positive, from frequent contributor Marcia Barhydt. As she says, we are all getting older (which started, of course, the day we were born). But staying young? That’s something else, Marcia says. That’s up to your Boomer Mind and Body.

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Pre-boomer Poms Pump Up The Volume

Pre-boomer Poms Pump Up The Volume

| December 4, 2011 | 0 Comments

Usually on BoomerCafé we features stories about what boomers are doing to stay active and young. But boomer writer Marcia Barhydt puts a twist on the theme: she writes about “pre-boomers” who stay equally active and young.

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Reinvention, Baby Boomer Style

Reinvention, Baby Boomer Style

| September 20, 2011 | 9 Comments

It was first written in the 17th Century that the only constant in life is change. But there wasn’t really much change from generation to generation back then. Today though, it never stops. And that applies to boomers more than anyone else. Which is why we like this essay by boomer writer Marcia Barhydt about Reinvention, Boomer-Style.

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Mandatory Retirement at 30,000 Feet

Mandatory Retirement at 30,000 Feet

| June 4, 2011 | 10 Comments

As members of the luckiest generation, we baby boomers have little to complain about. But there’s something standing in the way of some of us, something Marcia Barhydt writes about in this essay.

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Staying Young While Aging

Staying Young While Aging

| July 17, 2010 | 2 Comments

We can think young, and act young, and even keep our bodies young. But young as we once were? Maybe, if we follow Marcia Barhydt’s suggestion to Dig Deep.

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Tom Brokaw … You Missed Something

Tom Brokaw … You Missed Something

| March 26, 2010 | 2 Comments

We told you not long ago of a documentary by NBC’s Tom Brokaw about Boomers. A boomer who writes for BoomerCafé, Marcia Barhydt, watched it, and wrote this open letter called, “Tom Brokaw, you missed something!”

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Younger Than You Are

Younger Than You Are

| February 24, 2010 | 0 Comments

If we’re going to be boomers … we mean, young boomers … we have to think young. And here’s something special for you young boomer girls: according to writer Marcia Barhydt, that means thinking about young men. Younger, maybe, than you are.

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