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Joining Hands Across Generations - Newly Minted Crones
Tera Johnson-Swartz

Joining Hands Across Generations | Newly Minted Crones

Joining Hands Across Generations – Newly Minted Crones Cronedom is not just one generation.  It begins in our forties and extends to the end of life, which for some of us happens in our nineties or more.  At each stage we have much to learn from one another:  Newly menopausal women can learn from sisters who were there twenty years ago, and the oldest wisest sisters can learn from women still working and raising children even

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Stella Fosse

Falling In Love With Characters

Falling In Love With Characters I understand now why authors write sequels:  Because it’s tough to walk away from your characters at the end of your novel.  The lead women characters in Brilliant Charming Bastard—Rose, Joyce and Maxine—have been my companions for almost two years. Rose Bingham spent her career as a professor of Biology at UC Berkeley.  When I first “met” Rose, she was dating Brendan Burns, who claimed to be a physician and

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Stella Fosse

Sick of Watching

Sick of Watching – Try Shows about Strong Older Women A column on what to watch in lockdown should be obsolete.  But as the saying goes, what doesn’t kill you mutates and tries again.  If for any reason you are not vaccinated, please stop reading this and go do it now.  But even those of us who are vaccinated are the stars of a real-life rerun, spending more time at home by the electronic hearth, a

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The Expanding Stellaverse
Stella Fosse

The Expanding Stellaverse

The Expanding Stellaverse I started the Stella project to push back on the nexus of ageism and sexism by reminding society that older women live vivid, passionate lives.  To do that, I encourage women past midlife to share our erotic stories.  My upcoming novel, Brilliant Charming Bastard, is in line with that fun revolution.  The book was a joy to write, and I’m glad to hear from the advance readers that it is fun to

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To Conquer End the Divide between Young and Old
Stella Fosse

End the Divide between Young and Old

To Conquer – End the Divide between Young and Old One of my favorite cartoons shows a medieval king in a gold crown standing on castle ramparts with a robed advisor by his side.  Down below, a crowd of angry peasants gathers to storm the castle, half of them armed with pitchforks and the other half with torches. “You don’t need to fight them,” the advisor tells the king.  “You just need to convince the

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For Women Agency is the Issue

For Women Agency is the Issue. As I write this, the elected government of Afghanistan has fallen.  We see reports – not always well validated because of the situation there – of hospital workers who hid at home out of fear of the Taliban, were ordered back to work and the women went in burquas, only to be sent home again because they were female.  Western women journalists trapped in the country who pleaded for

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