An Online Magazine of the Arts by Women Over Sixty




"One thing that makes art
different from life is that
in art things have a shape...
it allows us to fix
our emotions on events
at the moment they occur,
it permits a union of heart
and mind and tongue and tear."

(Marilyn French)

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Summer 2009

Fiction

The Armoire
Kathryn Shaver

Nonfiction

Turning Sixty
Vivian Gornick

Tiptoeing Toward Seventy
Sandra Butler

Reaching Ninety
Roussel Sargent

Poetry

Poems
Diana O'Hehir

Art





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