Broomstick Chronicles

Corby and I decided it was time to give our kitty Lilith the peace of passing. She'd lost her eye some time ago, and it only got worse,...

Tonight, in a constant mist of rain, I participated in the 19th Annual Memorial Service for Homeless People Who Have Died in San Francisco T...

The promised -- and anticipated (by some) -- critique of the 2006 Spiral Dance, in terms of its technical deficiencies, appears below on Dec...

Like most folks around this time of year, I receive my share of invitations to holiday parties, celetrations, and religious observances. On...

Friend and colleague Traci Ardren , an anthropologist, has written this review of Mel Gibson's new movie, Apocalypto , about the Maya f...

I begin this entry with a quote that bears repeating: Whether we are creating a ritual, writing a poem, or building an altar, the point is t...

Last night I spoke on an interfaith panel sponsored by by Beta Beta Sigma chapter of Phi Theta Kappa. the Honor Society at the Napa Valley ...

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...