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The stone seat above Timble Gill, where two women novelists of a certain age sit and share the view across the Washburn Valley. Two Women on a Mission
Stephanie Shields

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 women on a mission. Empowerment, creativity and presence. Yes presence, for invisibility is not a special power—it’s a problem for

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TV shows about older women — CroneHub curates books, podcasts and series celebrating women after midlife
Stella Fosse

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 pushing back on stereotypes and telling the stories of our lives as we really live them. Because I never found

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Jacci Turner — writing after fifty blog zero to fifty
Jacci Turner

Zero to Fifty

Zero to Fifty When I’m being interviewed, I often get the question, “When did you know you wanted to be a writer?” The answer is, it’s complicated. Not that I haven’t written off and on my whole life, I wrote a play in third grade, a reader’s theater in seventh, and there is a book and a screenplay in a drawer somewhere that will never see the light of day. But I never wanted to

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Stella Fosse

Invent Your Own Goddess

Invent Your Own Goddess When pagan author Donna Henes was almost fifty she developed a surprising habit. She began praising herself over even the smallest thing. “Good girl!” she would say to herself if she took the stairs instead of the elevator, or if she really did drink eight glasses of water in a day. It dawned on her that she had been saying “Good boy!” to her dog for years, over the slightest thing;

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Susan Meyer

What Are Women Made Of?

What Are Women Made Of? As I child, I remember reciting, What Are Little Girls Made of? Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice.  Somehow, that never seemed right. The girls and women I knew were made of stronger stuff. Wanting to better define this, I began interviewing women as a graduate student and never stopped. I’ve interviewed over a hundred women over the past decades, almost all of them over forty, in search of a

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Stella Fosse

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 the larger group. We can find plenty of examples to support that idea, especially in authoritarian societies where stigmatizing a

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