Broomstick Chronicles

My Mother, Elizabeth (Betty) My latest blog is over at The Wild Hunt . Jason honored me by asking me to be among his guest bloggers while h...

Elizabeth Van Tine O'Brien January 19, 1911, Lansdowne, PA - May 23, 2008, Lodi, CA The announcement that went in the local papers, beca...

My mother, Elizabeth V. O'Brien, crossed over at the age of 97 in the early morning of May 23, 2008. Her daughters and granddaughters w...

Peggy & Aline, April 2008 (We asked a waiter to snap this, told him just head and shoulders. Twice he got shots like this, then another...

Vampyre Mike Kassel Maybe it's because I read the "Irish sporting green" on Sundays, but it seems to me at least once a month ...

Yes, I'm still here. It seems that the turning of the Wheel this Spring was an especially earth-shaking one. Things are calmer now. It...

My friend Ellen Cooney writes poems I like. Today I received in the mail a copy of her latest book, Mother of the Silkless: Invocations to ...

Three days ago Chas started this: 1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages). 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sent...

Yesterday morning I joined others at the Marin County Civic Center to confront the Board of Supervisors about their neglect to fix Marin...

Today's my birthday, a significant on this year -- I got my Medicare card. Of all the people I share this birthday with, my favorite is...

Here's another to which I was alerted by a Witch in South Carolina. We're doing our opening routine, "We represent the Besom B...

Here's another short YouTube of our pentacle being formed and lifted. I don't know why they're two separate clips.

WOW Besom Brigade performing at PantheaCon on Sunday, February 17, 2008, DoubleTree Hotel, San Jose, CA. This is only fewer than 30 seconds...

I emailed the woman who said she was going to post her video of the Besom Brigade on YouTube, still no response. I'm so eager to see it...

Just back from PantheaCon today.  One of the best in my experience.  So much to tell. We began with our (CHS') first pre-Con Winter Inte...

I guess I'm not a typical Obama supporter: (a) I'm not young and starry-eyed; (2) I'm not a new voter; I have voted in every el...

Does it feel to you as though the whole world is whizzing by while you're standing trying to keep your balance? It feels that way to me...

Much as poetry makes my heart sing, it's not my gift. So in honor of my friend Oak 's call for poetry in honor of the Feast of Shin...

Susan Grace Falkenrath July 4, 1954 – January 12, 2008 [photo by Jan Dance] Susan Grace Falkenrath, who was also known as Susan Green, Susan...

Well, my man Barack Obama -- yep, I'm an Obama Mama -- took South Carolina handily, while my colleagues in Marin County staffed the phon...