Metamorphosis
Table of Contents
Features & Interviews
6 Heart Cracked Open: My Trial by Fire by Marianna Hartsong
On the afternoon of November 21, 2009, while I was in town playing The Messiah, my house burned to the ground. By the time we returned at 4:30, the first responders were just preparing to search for my body.
16 Where the Horizon Meets the Sky
by M. C. Reardon
I am deathly afraid of heights. So when a writing colleague invited me to join her on a steep hike to Freezeout Saddle on the edge of the Hells Canyon Wilderness, I was at a loss.
24 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Wrinkles
by Brenda Marroy — My intense dislike of aging was a result of buying into the societal lie that “it is wrong for an older woman to look her age.”
29 Not Just a Pain in the Neck: Lessons from a Midlife Goddess
by Lady Willow —
Healing our own emotional pain is often left for last until we are poised on the brink of becoming crones. I like to think of the menopause’s “hot flashes” as the purifying fire of the Goddess.
Departments
Crone Poetry
23 Body Memory by Marie Lavendier
27 Skin Deep by Andrea Freeman
28 Evil Stepmother by Colleen Szabo
53 Salt and Fire and Time by Sarah Knorr
Poet Profile: Anita Jepson-Gilbert
38 Everywoman
39 Midlife Blossom
40 Call of the Faithful
Crone Action
44 The Tribe of Old Womem by Mary Kate Jordan
46 PLUS A Conspiracy of Crones by Marian Van Eyk McCain
Crone Adventure
54 Can’t Get Enough of Those Red Rock Cliffs by Christine Wallin
Loss & Transformation
63 A Time to Mourn by Mary Farkas
66 Thank You Bernie MadoffAn interview with
Darvesha Victoria MacDonald
71 Her Life, Her Choice by Max Martinie
Crone Encounters
76 Inanna & Me by Berta Parrish
82 Finding Daddy by Jackie Sachen Turner
85 My Guardian Angel by Colleen DuVall
Crone Circles
88 Once Upon a Witches’ Moon by Bronwynn Forrest Torgerson
114 Crone Eye (reviews)
123 Crone Correspondence
Columns
3 Focus Anne Newkirk Niven
91 Living the Shift Joan Bird
95 Crone Sexuality Pat Hanson
101 (Not So) Strictly Speaking Lindy High
103 The Experiment Ann Kreilkamp
107 Wise Health Christine Page
109 Eco-Crone Marian Van Eyk McCain
111 Creature Comforts Lee Pelham Cotton
