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Stella Fosse

None Dare Call it Normal

None Dare Call it Normal The email landed in my box with a nearly audible thud. Dear Stella, It’s time for your online follow-up visit to the Brain Health Registry! Just like your first visit, you’ll be asked to update your information by answering questionnaires and re-taking brain tests. Your participation is vital to furthering the study of brain diseases in your family, community and beyond. You are helping to revolutionize brain health research and accelerate the

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Anne Riley

DNA and Democracy

DNA and Democracy I have just published my new book: DINA: Nature’s Case For Democracy. In it, I describe how democracy preceded humans by about two billion years. Of course, we don’t call it democracy in nature. We call the beings that practice democracy by their common names like bees and tigers and trees and every other living thing on earth. Humans adopted the idea of democracy fairly quickly, but they do not share the

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Stella Fosse

A Quilt is More than Fragments

A Quilt is More than Fragments By age 92 my mother was no longer independent, though she lived in the house my parents had bought sixty years before. My brother and I were far away, and Mom depended on the kindness of neighbors and a bit of hired help to shop for her, do her laundry, and vacuum her rugs. Mom’s car rusted, undriven for years, in the driveway. The neighbors were burning out; one

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Vicki DeArmon

Small-Press Publishing in 2024

Small-Press Publishing in 2024 Flashback to 1988 in San Francisco when I was the publisher of Foghorn Press, a start-up with no capital. We had big dreams—dreams that actually manifested in high sales. Each year, we shipped 40,000 copies of our lead title, the guidebook California Camping, the golden goose of our list. Our other guidebooks sold heartily as well (5,000 to 25,000). That was our reality. Fast forward to 2022 and the launch of

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Stella Fosse

What to Expect When You are Seventy

What to Expect When You Are Seventy Having been in my seventies for all of six months, I am only marginally qualified to write about this decade. But never having been reticent about sharing an opinion, whether informed or not, here is what I know so far. If you’re a Crone in Training in your forties through sixties, please consider this essay a missive from the future. First of all, the stereotype of the Frail

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Rachel Peru

Embracing Sensuality in Midlife: A Journey of Liberation and Self-Expression

Embracing Sensuality in Midlife: A Journey of Liberation and Self-Expression If you would have asked me in my twenties and thirties to show up on social media and modeling campaigns in my bra and knickers, I would have run a mile! I wasn’t comfortable looking at myself in the mirror, never mind letting a total stranger see me. So how did I end up becoming a lingerie model in my forties? As for so many

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