#130. Age and Capacity
Across democracies, questions about age and leadership are getting harder to ignore. Who is too old to lead? When should one generation make room for another? And when does a legitimate question about capacity become an assumption based on the number of birthdays someone has had?
# 129. Quest and Questions
What if the life you worked so hard to build isn’t the life you want anymore? In our third chapters, better questions can open new possibilities.
#128. Can We Please Have September?
Can we please have September? In a culture always rushing toward the next big moment, what if the ordinary days aren’t the space between—but life itself?
#127. Well, That Sucked
When life opens a sinkhole beneath you, resilience isn’t pretending it didn’t suck. It’s acknowledging what happened—and finding your way forward.
#126. Don't Call Me. I'll Call You.
I got scammed on my birthday. What followed taught me how today’s fraudsters use urgency, fear, and even fake help—and why response beats reaction.
#125. Halfway!
There comes a point in our third chapter when the arithmetic is difficult to ignore. Unless we are truly Blue Zone people, most of us are more than halfway through our lives.
#124. Are We There Yet?
A few weeks after a medical procedure, I’ve discovered that progress isn’t behaving the way I expected. Some days are better. Some aren’t. And my usual capacity has been replaced by a rather humbling rhythm of activity, rest, activity, rest.
# 123. Kitchen Comfort
Some days the world feels too loud.
The headlines race from one crisis to the next, and it can feel as though everything is shifting beneath our feet.
When that happens, I find myself in the kitchen.
#122. The New Landscape
Aging isn’t one thing. It is a landscape. And we have entered new terrain.
#121. Head and Feet
"She who doesn't have a head has feet." Discover how one Albanian proverb became a lifelong lesson in mindfulness and wiser living.
#120. The Pickle Jar Principle
As the laughter settled, I realized we weren't really talking about jars. We were talking about life.
There comes a moment with every stubborn problem when we have to decide: Do I keep wrestling with this thing? Or do I ask for help?
#119. Convergence
As we age, friendships, ideas, and opportunities begin to converge in unexpected ways. How do we discern which invitations deserve our yes?
#118. Agency and Aging
The final blog in the Darwin series reflects on agency, openness, and what it means to keep evolving through every stage of life.
#117. The Adaptable Heart: Staying Open
The adaptable heart remains capable of relationship with change, and maybe that is the deepest evolutionary wisdom women in our third chapter have to offer now. Not perfection or pretending everything is fine, but the hard-earned ability to stay open anyway.
#116. The Adaptable Heart (Part 1): When Fear Closes Us
Blog #116 explores how fear and self-protection can quietly narrow our lives over time. Through Darwin’s lens of adaptation, WonderCrone examines what happens when caution becomes our primary way of relating to life—and how to notice when fear is closing us down.
#115. The Next Mutation (Part 2): The Stories That Survive Us
What survives because we were here? Blog #115 explores legacy, storytelling, and the wisdom women pass forward through everyday life.
#114. The Next Mutation: Women Who Refuse to Disappear
Women over fifty are reshaping culture in real time. Blog #114 explores visibility, reinvention, and the growing cultural shift toward aging in power.
#113. Evolutionary Advantage (Part 2): Designed to be Different
Stop editing. Start living. Discover why your uniqueness is not a flaw—but your greatest evolutionary advantage in this vibrant next chapter.
#112. Evolutionary Advantage (Part 1): The High Cost of Being Normal
“Normal” isn’t natural. It isn’t neutral. Normal is a strategy, and it may be holding you back. Explore the hidden cost of conformity and why it’s time to evolve.
#111. Extinction: The Art of Letting Go
What if letting go isn’t failure, but evolution? This reflection explores how releasing what has run its course creates space for clarity, energy, and a more aligned next chapter.