Marcy Barack
Marcy Barack blossomed from a tall, skinny A-student who never got any dates in high school to a Playboy magazine employee after picking up a college diploma from one of the Seven Sisters. After a decade in wire service/broadcast news -- and the big city singles scene -- she settled down in the boonies with a husband. They devoted the next decade to raising three kids. In her ThirdAge, Barack resumed her writing career, starting with poems and stories for children. As the Deputy Managing Editor and unofficial den mother to the ThirdAge news staff, she hopes she's acquired a bit of wisdom over the years, to go with the wrinkles.
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Fran Berger
Despite an aversion to winter and a passion for dogs, Fran Berger lives with her husband -- but no pets -- in the Northeast. Fran worked for the first quarter-century of her career in radio. She spent time as a copywriter, where she learned to write quickly, as a newswriter, where she learned to write accurately, and as general manager, where she learned to write memos. After an 18 and-a-half-year gap trying to keep those seven dirty words from escaping over the airwaves, she left to launch her own business, and her ThirdAge. As a reporter for the ThirdAge News Service, she's now doing what she loves -- writing -- and thinking about that puppy.
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Maggie Griffin Heeger
Writing has always been the connecting thread in Maggie Heeger's life. Back in the '60s and '70s she made a habit of passing juicy notes among friends at school; as a college student, she could bluff her way through any course as long as the test had essay questions; as a stay-at-home mom for 17 years, Maggie became the secretary for every volunteer group she joined. Now, as a professional writer, she's written hundreds of features, news stories and essays for newspapers, magazines and Internet sites. Maggie shares her ThirdAge with two teen-agers and a Siamese cat. Their collective idea of a great day is sleeping till noon and spending the rest of the day slowing down even further.
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Jonathan Kronstadt
It took Jonathan Kronstadt nearly 20 years -- and almost as many jobs -- to realize he and the traditional workplace had irreconcilable differences. He's happier now, writing in his basement and chasing his two kids around Washington, D.C. He likes grocery shopping, shooing teen-age rollerbladers off his neighborhood tennis courts, and making fun of stuff. His pet peeves are pet hair, teen-age rollerbladers, and people who read while driving. He expects his ThirdAge will be much like his First Age and Second Age, only with more ear hair.
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Bill Parkinson
From a die-hard Republican family four generations deep, Bill Parkinson was spared the leftist fantasies of a U.S. "liberal" education by attending university abroad. He served in Vietnam during a decade in the Marines. Thirty years as a reporter, correspondent, and editor writing about U.S. and British politics have contributed to his unique perspective on the national scene. Bill, ThirdAge News Service's Managing Editor, says his conservative stance puts him to the right of Ronald Reagan and to the left of Charles de Gaulle. His personal political hero: Margaret Thatcher.
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