Broomstick Chronicles

I'm constantly amazed at the talent in this world, and especially the talent among my Pagan friends. Laura Wyrd is an old colleague fr...

Some of my colleagues in Reclaiming and myself have come up with this statement which we now make public: As a group of Witches who have all...

I cannot be the only person who's sick to death of defining and redefining and going over the same stuff over and over and over and over...

I can't help crowing about this lovely turn of events. These two fine Pagans found each other in a class called "Call of the Dark ...

The official launch of the Foundation for the Advancement of Women in Religion took place tonight at the Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel. Lot...

Note this is not the Conference on Contemporary Pagan Studies which precedes the AAR Annual Meeting. It the Contemporary Pagan Studies Co...

I know I said I wasn't gonna post photos often, but I feeling proud and going by the old saw that a picture is worth 1000 words, so here...

Friday night Patrick and I managed to meet to conduct some CHS business, socialize as friends are wont to do, and catch a theater piece tog...

I don't intend for this blog to be a photo album, but sometimes you just can't help it if you have something visual you want to docu...

Michael Moore urges voters to bring a broom and sweep 'em out of office. I did my part. Photo taken at San Rafael, California by Corby...

Honoring the Dead : My day started out high from last night, when about 30 of us met on the hill to dance with the ancestors. It turned out...

Summoning the Ancestors M. Macha NightMare © Samhain 2005 C.E. Oh, mighty, many, myriad Ancestors, as we spiral in and out of time, we call ...

This is a photo of my paternal Irish grandparents. I never knew my grandfather, Edward Joseph O'Brien, because he died before I was bo...

Versions of this sentiment have arisen in many conversations with Sparky and Steven over the years. It's now been set down. This is ac...

Here's a fine article about the Spiral Dance , written by a reporter who is brand new to Pagan ritual. It features photos of Lauren Rai...

As always, the altars were beautiful. The Quarter altars were in different places than they were last year; guess someone used a compass. T...

Let me preface this entry by saying that it's gonna end up being several entries. I have too much to say to say it all at once. I want...

I took this after a Dianic coven's Samhain ritual last night at Victoria's house. This altar stands in her shared courtyard, where ...

This is one of my favorite photos. Taken by the late Ken Willard either before or after, but not during, the Spiral Dance in San Francisco...

On December 29, 2002, a chilly (for these parts) Winter day, Corby and I participated in a project called Baring Witness for Peace . We wer...