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The Queen of My Self
Poem for the Woman Who Doesn’t Want a Daughter
By
Donna Henes
By Karen Ethelsdattar I want you to look at yourself in the mirror & say “& God created Woman & she is good” I want you to look at yourself in the mirror & say “God is a Woman” I want you to look at yourself in the mirror & say “I am God’s Daughter”…
On Beauty and Age
By
Donna Henes
By Anne Lamott I was at a wedding Saturday with a lot of women in their 20s and 30s in sexy dresses, their youthful skin aglow. And even though I was 20 or 30 years older, a little worse for wear, a little tired and overwhelmed by the loud music, I was smiling. I smiled…
Why I am a Queen and Not (Yet) a Crone
By
Donna Henes
I am not a Crone. I was not a Crone on my 50th birthday. I was not a Crone when my periods were officially declared over after thirteen months of no shows. I was not a Crone at my second Saturn return at the age of 56 or thereabouts. Nor am I a Crone today…
I Like Myself!
By
Donna Henes
Despite the rude awakenings, the unsettling physical and emotional chaos of midlife and all of its frightful, presumed ramifications, an amazing number of women find this stage to be the most personally fulfilling and satisfying of their lives so far. A recent Gallup survey of women aged fifty to sixty-five revealed that fifty-one percent of…
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