#agepowerfully
April 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
We must keep gaining ground, not the other way.
#AgePowerfully #Queenagers #WomenOfACertainAge
April 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Personally, I plan to spend it on joy and creation.
#CreativeCrones #AgePlayfully #AgePowerfully #AgeWell #WomenWriters #WritersLife
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
August 11, 2026 at 6:00 PM
August 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Amen to this #CroneForemother.
#WritersLife #WomenWriters #AgePowerfully #CreativeCrones
April 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Published her first novel at 70. The more of us the merrier!
#CroneAuthors #writerslife #AgePowerfully
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Debuting at 70
Ruth Bonapace on what it took to publish her first novel as a newly minted septuagenarian.
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June 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
What did you love as a child that you set aside for the sake of adulting? What would you like to reclaim now? 
#AgePlayfully #AgePowerfully #CreativeCrones #AgeWell
May 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM
And another way to live happily ever after...
#CroneWisdom #AgePlayfully #AgePowerfully
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/well/live/seniors-single-dating.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
Over 60, Single and Never Happier
Why some older people who have given up looking for romantic love say they feel self-assured and satisfied on their own.
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2026 at 7:45 PM
This is legit. Write your story or someone will write it for you.
#WritersLife #WomenWriters #CreativeCrones #RenegadeWomen #WomenOver60Rock #AgePlayfully #AgePowerfully #AgeWell #MargaretAtwood

April 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Amen, sister! 
Maggie Kuhn, founder of the Gray Panthers, is one of our many #croneforemothers. Let's celebrate her legacy - let's #agepowerfully and #ageplayfully. 
#womenempoweringwomen #proaging #antiageism #agepositive
March 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
What did you love as a child that you set aside for the sake of adulting? What would you like to reclaim now? 
#AgePlayfully #AgePowerfully #CreativeCrones #AgeWell
May 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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#ThisIs68 #UnfilteredUnstoppable #RealWomenRealSkin #SkincareAtEveryAge #GlowWithConfidence #AgePowerfully
June 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"Guess what, ladies. It’s time to activate our superpower. What superpower, you ask? Our age, of course."
#AgePowerfully #AgeWell #CronePower
https://substack.com/home/post/p-167095441
That fierce old lady magic
...is what the world needs now.
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June 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Trans author Jennifer Boylan writes: "The fact that I see a woman’s reflection where I once saw a man’s is probably less dramatic than the fact that I once saw a young person there, and now — well, now I see someone else.”
#AgePowerfully #CroneWisdom #AntiAgeism
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/b...
A ‘Weary but Fabulous’ Poster Girl for Trans Life Opens Up About Aging (Gift Article)
In her fifth memoir, “Cleavage,” Jennifer Finney Boylan writes about her 36-year marriage, her adult children and why she keeps telling her story.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"In the new normal, we’re going to have to let go of this notion that our values and worth are based solely on our titles, incomes, and jobs."
Elizabeth White, in "55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life"
#CroneWisdom #AgeWell #AgePowerfully 
March 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
From Accidental Icon, Lyn Slater: "Age is never a variable I use in deciding what to wear." Second in my Crones to Watch Out For series on Substack - please follow me there.
#CronesToWatchOutFor #AgePlayfully #AgePowerfully
https://stellafosse.substack.com/p/accidental-icon-lyn-slater
Accidental Icon Lyn Slater
From the Stella Fosse "Crones to Watch Out For" Series
stellafosse.substack.com
July 21, 2026 at 1:59 PM
From my Substack series, "Crones to Watch Out For." Ashton's profile will also be in my upcoming book, "Rock On: Power, Sex & Money after 60."
#AgePowerfully #AgeWell
https://open.substack.com/pub/stellafosse/p/meet-ashton-applewhite?r=yq3s3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Activist Ashton Applewhite
From the Stella Fosse "Crones to Watch Out For" Series
open.substack.com
July 29, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Coming in at #4 for 2024: "Natalie Goldberg said that when we write, we ride the universe as it moves through us. The meaning of our death depends on whether we fulfilled our purpose."
hashtag#AgePowerfully hashtag#AgeWell hashtag#CroneWisdom hashtag#MeaningOfLife
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Retirement Till the End
The Lovely Vacation that Ends in Death
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January 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
5th most popular of 2024 on the Creative Crones Substack: "The defining scene in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande: when Emma Thompson gazes at her naked self in the mirror with gratitude and joy."
#CroneWisdom #AgePlayfully #AgePowerfully #AgeWell

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The Legs are the Last to Go
Love begins with self-love. The appreciation of our beauty begins with each of us.
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January 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Is it "giving up" to accept how our looks change over time? Or is it reclaiming our real lives? A thoughtful analysis from Jessica DeFino.
#CroneBeauty #CroneWisdom #AgePowerfully #AgePositive
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/jul/03/aging-advice-acceptance-giving-up
My co-worker thinks her single friend should lose weight. Is not caring about looks ‘giving up’?
If ‘giving up’ doesn’t sit right, try thinking about it as getting something back: time, money, energy
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2026 at 6:00 PM
"In the case of older adults, it's not so much what the hands are doing but what they are not doing: using a laptop, playing an instrument, holding onto a steering wheel, or operating a microscope."
#AntiAgeism #CroneImages #AgePowerfully #AgeWell
https://www.nextavenue.org/what-the-hands-are-doing/
How Photos Showing Older Adult Hands Reveal Cultural Bias
Photos of old hands…are they ageist? Not necessarily, but it’s what the hands are doing that matters
www.nextavenue.org
May 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM