The Crone’s Journey
Editing her new vampire novel, Stella Fosse recognized a story shape rarely told: not the Hero’s Journey, but a Crone’s Journey – reinvention, not just wisdom and acceptance, in the second half of life.
What If it Isn’t About Staying Busy in Later Life?
There is a kind of tiredness that many women carry into later life that is hard to explain unless you’ve lived it. Dr Denise Taylor on why ageing well need not mean staying endlessly busy.
A Different Kind of Activism
Clinical studies of older adults are built to measure decline and nothing else. Stella Fosse on Becca Levy’s new research, the review boards that let one-sided studies through — and what any of us can do about it.
Two Women on a Mission
Two Women on a Mission News flash: After Amba by Stephanie Shields is the Gold Medal Winner in the 2025 WSA Independent Book Awards for Adult Fiction. It’s late August 2025. This is us, Stella and me. Two women novelists of a certain age. We’re sharing a view and we’re sharing a vision. Two older […]
A Taste of the Banquet
A Taste of the Banquet As I’ve interacted over the years with the marvelous women who create Crone Culture, I’ve often wished for one place where we could see it all: the books, the podcasts, the shows and movies that celebrate women past midlife. A place to learn more about the vibrant women who are […]
A Politically Correct Scapegoat?
A Politically Correct Scapegoat? Anthropologists have long debated the idea that targeting certain members of a society as “others” who don’t deserve care and respect has survival value for the group as a whole. If we assume that people have inborn tendencies toward violence, then focusing blame on a subgroup might support the cohesion of […]
