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Meet the Crone
“To face the tempest, the tree must have long roots and gnarled branches.”
Dec 15, 2022 • Stephanie Mines
Apoptosis: Severance and Regeneration
Embryologists call apoptosis “cellular suicide.” It is refusal, removal, and rejection of whatever is unnecessary, whatever interferes with forward…
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Memory, Memoir and Mnemosyne
The field of memoir writing is exploding.
Jan 9 • Stephanie M Mines
Dare to be Led by Children
This is not a magical-thinking post about how sweet and adorable children are.
Jan 5 • Stephanie M Mines
A Renaissance of Love
Passion and Birth
Dec 29, 2025 • Stephanie M Mines
Dismemberment and Resurrection
2026 is the Year of Reunification
Dec 19, 2025 • Stephanie M Mines
The Undefeatable Woman and the Aegis of Love
There is something about the love that women have for children that is completely undefeatable.
Dec 13, 2025 • Stephanie M Mines
Creativity, Trauma and Original Brilliance
“No one ever told us we could study our lives, make of our lives a study, as if learning natural history or music.” ~ Adrienne Rich
Dec 5, 2025 • Stephanie M Mines
CRONE SPEAK
CRONE SPEAK
Musings of a Crone who is also a neuroscientist, an embryologist, and a poet.
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