Broomstick Chronicles

Heads up, all you Pagan parents and scholars. My friends American sociologist Helen Berger and Australian sociologist Doug Ezzy have just...

No, not exactly lost. More like mired, traumatized by seemingly endless family crises. That's what accounts for my recent silence. My ...

Sunday we presented a salon at Oak's house in the Mission. "We" being ICT, Independent Craft Teachers, a small group of seaso...

On Monday Patrick and I attended a day-long retreat sponsored on a quarterly basis by the Marin Interfaith Council and held at beautiful S...

Student William Blumberg coordinated an academic panel for CHS at the most recent PantheaCon. William, a philosopher, is also coordinator ...

One tidbit about PantheaCon you probably won't see on any other blog is that they had a tattoo contest. I entered five of mine -- to e...

Huzzah! Today I learned from my friend Lugh in São Paulo, that my book, Witchcraft and the Web , has now been published in Brazil, with the...

Good news! Ariel Montserrat, with Oberon 's blessings and the assistance of Jeanne Koelle and Ian LurkingBear , is reviving The Green ...

Here are some facts about First Lt. Ehren Watada's court-martial , featuring a Reclaiming friend. Lady Justice by Joshua Reynolds, 1779 ...

I'm always glad when the Feast of Brigit rolls around, never less than this year, when I'm dealing with some serious healing issues ...

This is a piece I like to put out there now and then. I don't have anything particular on my mind at the moment, no rumors floating aro...

I look forward to our annual celebration of the Feast of the Goddess Brigit . This year especially, since I'm dealing with a loved one ...

Oona, fka Bubbles Fernando is the one in front. On January 13th, I sent this news to a few friends: Here are Fernando and Bubbles. (Bubbles...

Or who owns our bodies? Apparently Tuesday, the 34th anniversary of Roe v. Wade , was Blog for Choice Day . I didn't hear about it till...

The Marin Interfaith Council and the Marin Interfaith Youth Outreach presented an event in honor of Dr. King called Jubilee: Civil Rights ...

A couple of interesting news stories came to my attention this morning. Two days ago Starhawk had put out a call for someone to lead a spira...

I've been happily absorbed in all the media coverage of Nancy Pelosi's ascension ot Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. I...

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...