Broomstick Chronicles

Yesterday I drove to Fair Oaks (Sacramento area) for the annual A Gathering of Spirits Harvest Festival honoring Pagan Pride Day. I picked...

Sister Marion censing the peace pole. The activist Dominican Sisters of San Rafael , under the direction of Sister Marion Irvine, previously...

Yesterday I spent a restorative day with others in the Marin Interfaith Council at one of our quarterly retreats. The theme was balancing t...

Summer & Macha at the Summer of Love My friend Summer and I spent last Sunday afternoon in Speedway Meadows in Golden Gate Park enjoying...

On Thursday I attended another luncheon meeting of the Marin Interfaith Council, the topic of which was "Serving Your Senior Community....

One of the most compelling reasons for me to belong to CoG is the friends I've made through it. I hadn't attended CoG's annual m...

Earlier in the month at MerryMeet in Massachusetts, Laura "Spellweaver" Wildman-Hanlon organized a conversation between long-tim...

You know that crazy expression that someone is "beside herself"? You're jumping with joy so much that you may be multiplying,...

Talk about horny! Among the first performers we saw on the night Corby and I arrived was Incus , great drumming, great fusion music, wonderf...

Just home from Starwood in Pennsylvania and off to MerryMeet in Massachusetts in a few hours. Lots to tell when I find time. Celebrated L...

Honor and praise for Aphrodite is perennial. Starwood is a phenomenon unto itself, a wonderful one! This year Corby came with me. That mad...

Memorial Tree and Plaque This wicked hot Sunday afternoon the Marin Interfaith Street Chaplaincy held a procession and memorial ceremony fo...

For the past few years I've been considering "coming out" with what we Witches call our mundane names. I have a perfectly good...

To my surprise, one of the guests at the Marin Interfaith Council Annual Meeting last month was an old friend of mine I haven't seen sin...

I haven't posted much of a magical bent lately. Writer Barbara Ardinger reminded me of an ancient disappearing spell. I offer it here...

On June 30th, Corby and I celebrated Max and Nava's 25th anniversary with them. Someone with a camera promised to send me a photo of th...

I spent much of the Independence Day week/weekend staffing a booth at the Marin County Fair for Obama for President . I've been tablin...

Okay, folks. This post is for cat-lovers and friends of cat lovers. Our lovely kitties, like all kitties, have their own favored napping sp...

This is my unread but soon-to be-read pile, not to be confused with shelves of other unread books calling me, and shelves of previously read...

Just in case you didn't believe that bit about working atop KT-22, here the proof, sort of. That's me on my daily ride up to the pl...