Colleen Baird doesn’t look like an old-timey grandmother, writes Helaine R. Williams in Family.
She wears her shoulder-length hair dark with highlights, much as she did during her younger days. The petite, vivacious 52-year-old Conway resident is an advertising sales manager who does yoga, attends baseball and football games, and describes herself as an “amateur political junkie.”
Baird belongs to a new school of grandmothers who have emerged since baby boomers began to age, armed with such phrases as “50 is the new 30” and shedding traditional images of the kindly, rotund grandmother in her gray bun and granny glasses and stationed permanently in the kitchen. See Wednesday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for more.