Broomstick Chronicles

Notes from the broomstick circuit -- and beyond.

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Brief Break for Reminiscing

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Back in the early '70s I worked at a place called the National Center for Experiments in Television in a warehouse down at 7th and Fols...
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Cooling Down

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I feel much better tonight after checking out some facts. I'm not leaving this community. I can't be gotten rid of that easily. I...
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Monday, August 14, 2006

Priestesses Compare Notes

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I'm in shock. Stunned! Nonplussed. I just learned something tonight that probably should have been obvious to me based on my observat...
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Sunday, August 13, 2006

Passion for Poppies

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I have a passion for California poppies . When my dad drove our whole family across the continent from New Jersey to California in 1959, ou...
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Saturday, August 12, 2006

Blog Is Blooming

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The blogosphere is blooming with analyses of Reclaiming over at Anne Hill's Blog o' Gnosis . I've spent way too much time this...
Friday, August 04, 2006

More Besom Fun

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My friend Anna Korn , one of the late Gwydion Penderwen 's five widows, currently married to Don Frew, recently visited Scotland where s...
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Thursday, August 03, 2006

Mom Shakes

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Woo-hoo! We were just sitting down to dinner about 8:10 tonight when I felt the floor tremble. I asked Corby, "Did you feel that eart...
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Starwood Virgin

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I was a Starwood virgin. No, more, though. I had a fabulous time. Loved the liberated feeling of living in an un-PC environment with 1400 o...
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Monday, July 31, 2006

Besom Brigade on the Web

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Victoria found this on the Web. We have no idea who made it, but if you watch it till the end, you can see a little clip of our WOW (Witch...

Dancing with Gaia

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Corby, Victoria and I attended a preview screening of Jo Carson 's new movie, Dancing with Gaia , last night. About 10 people shared a...
Thursday, July 27, 2006

Pagans in Prisons and & Press

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A few weeks ago I was contacted by referral by a reporter for Associated Press , Kristen Gelineau, who was writing a story about an Asatru m...
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Monday, July 24, 2006

Change, Growth & Consensus Process

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I've been working at consensus process decision-making since my days in the SF Women's Studies Collective back in the 1970s. A few ...
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Sunday, July 16, 2006

Women, Spirituality & Politics

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Corby and I attended a presentation last night by independent scholar Max Dashu . Using the theme of Female Shamans in Indigenous Resistanc...
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Saturday, July 15, 2006

Fractured

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Well, I finally heeded the advice of friends and went to Kaiser to have my arm checked out and X-rayed. The internist didn't see a brea...

Paganism Hits the Booklist

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Huzzah! I received Chas Clifton 's book, Her Hidden Children : The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in America , in the mail. The cover is ...
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Friday, July 14, 2006

Courting the Lady

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After many years of work, my friend Patrick McCollum has finally published Courting the Lady , the first of an anticipated three-book series...

Another Autobiography

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I recently read Loreon Vigné's autobiography, The Goddess Bade Me Do It! Not only is Loreon an accomplished artist in many media, but ...
Sunday, July 09, 2006

Morning Glory

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What a great surprise to see Morning Glory at Farida and Conly's Summer garden party in Santa Rosa yesterday! She came with Oberon, her...
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You Owe It to the Future

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Please, please, please go see Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth , if you haven't already seen it. It's not too late to cha...
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Saturday, July 08, 2006

Got My mtDNA Results!

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For my birthday in February my mother gave me a gift of participation in The Genographic Project . This is a landmark study in the human jo...
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