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.
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 […]
