Crone Life
I'm a former Brooklynite, now a librarian in the mid-Hudson Valley, learning to live with the consequences of aging
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That Day of Terror (opens the original)
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August Was a Bust (opens the original)
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Hi everybody! Welcome to Crone Life, my newsletter about figuring out old age, returning (briefly) after an August hiatus.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1838" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GhgT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progres
Today I’m wearing clothes (opens the original)
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Goodbye July (opens the original)
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Hello hello dear readers and subscribers! You’ll notice I’ve changed my rhyming headline for the first of the month to reflect the month past instead of the month to come. It felt awkward to greet the new month in a post which is basically a summary of the last one, so I made a unilateral decision to change that. We’ll see how it goes.For those who have been following along but not memorizing my peregrinations and also for those just joining, Crone Life is about figuring out old age, more or les
Some Newsletters I Like and Why (opens the original)
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NOTE: This one went long again, so please click through to read the whole thing.Welcome everybody! I know you’re all dying to hear more about my Hot Crone Summer™ but I’m going to the Catskills for a few days and will be gone all weekend. I decided to write something I could schedule.<div clas
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