A Crone's Crossing Author:Mary Fogarty The poetry, essays and short stories in A Crone'’s Crossing stand as a witness to Ms. Fogarty's passage into Cronehood. In an Introduction: What is a Crone? she writes, I no longer feel I live in the world, but the world lives in me. As a character tried, the glory I found came from how well I had handled my losses. In every encounter, human and... more » animal, I began to see reflections of myself. I was a painting among many paintings that formed a larger composition.« less