Category: Maiden Mother Crone

  • Croning: A Ritual for a Woman of a Certain Age

    Croning: A Ritual for a Woman of a Certain Age

    She’s a woman of “a certain age.”  Our culture thinks those words are better than saying “she’s old.” Well, I am a woman of a certain age. I am certain of who I am,  certain of what I want, and certain of what I have to offer. I’ll be 78 in a few days and…

  • Ritual: Maiden, Mother, Crone

    Ritual: Maiden, Mother, Crone

    Every Maiden isn’t young.   Every Mother doesn’t have a child.   Every Crone isn’t old.     Ritual for a Group Several years ago, I created a ritual for hundreds of women writers who’d come from all over the world for a week-long conference held on a college campus.  The ritual was to honor their stories, those…