On Discipline, Binges, Blurts, and Mosaics: My Writing Process
When people ask me this PROCESS question, I usually just say I’m a binge writer. But it’s more complicated: I’m a Disciplined Binge/Blurt/Mosaic-and-Blend writer.
Halloween is for Crones
Long before I was Crone I loved Halloween best of all. The holiday of imagination. The holiday of “What if?”
We’re Not Fine—and It’s Time to Talk About Menopause
Imagine a world in which men’s hormones shift monthly from puberty until midlife. Novelist Teri M. Brown on why it is well past time for women to stop accepting platitudes about menopause and start talking.
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.
