Broomstick Chronicles

© 2009 Richard Man * Last night we celebrated Samhain at Reclaiming's 30th Anniversary Spiral Dance . The stated intention of this yea...

Photo by Peter Hughes (RIP) Blessed Samhain to All on Every Plane of Existence! Well, folks, I had this very cool audio file I was gonna sha...

Well, Patrick and I made it to this event in spite of the fact that my car overheated in the BART parking lot where I was picking him up fo...

Two weeks ago I attended a the 6th Annual Marin Leadership Luncheon sponsored by the Marin Leadership Foundation . Marin Interfaith Counci...

As a member of the AAR , I get lots of catalogs from academic publishers. While most titles are not especially relevant or interesting to P...

Last Tuesday I attended MIC's quarterly retreat. Teachers Mary Grace Orr from Vipassana Santa Cruz and the Rev. Rob Geiselmann from Chr...

I am very sad today to learn of the passing of my friend Beki Filipello . She was a lovely woman and a wonderful ( NROOGD ) Witch. She had...

Yesterday Corby and I drove out to Drake's Beach, so named because Sir Francis Drake is said to have landed there in the Golden Hind in ...

Today is the natal day of my firstborn, a son, 47 years ago. He is no longer on this plane, but I always remember him, especially on his bi...

I've been reading a book called Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe , by William Rosen. The author tells of ...

It's been way too long since I celebrated the New Moon by attending a Kali puja. Last night I did, and it was an exceptionally good one...

* * * * * * * * * * * * * This morning Corby and I drove to the Lafayette BART station to participate in a rite honoring Pagan service-peopl...

Last week Thorn Coyle interviewed me for her podcast Elemental Castings . During the interview I was feeling clumsy and inarticulate, but w...

I need to take the opportunity to use this forum to gripe about folks, especially Pagans, who use black or dark backgrounds. I cannot read ...

I know there's been lots of fuss this year about the National Day of Prayer . I know that Christians feel they own it. President Obama...

On Saturday I led a spiral dance at the conclusion of the wedding of my friends Carol and Chris . Carol is the Executive Director of Marin ...

Corby and I are just back from singing up the Sun with the Berkeley Morris Dancers at Inspiration Point in Tilden Park, followed by breakf...

I hope you're as delighted as I that Michelle Obama has planted a garden on the White House lawn . I've been urging my colleagues i...

The last weekend in my over-scheduled month of February found me at a gathering called ConVocation , near Detroit. My understanding is that...

Last month I was fortunate to have been asked to give one of the keynote addresses at the Conference on Current Pagan Studies sponsored by ...