TS and I went to the TAWN Fall Fest on Saturday, sold lots of Wild Women Soaps products, did a little shopping and a lot of people watching. We also met with Willow, who lives in Tucson and is a Reclaiming/Feri Witch from Portland, OR. She is interested in building a Reclaiming community here in … Continue reading Weekend Entertainment

Another entry about grief in my "every day" journal has spawned many comments. I have to admit to being at something of a loss about why this particular one touched so many people. I know it is well written, but I'm not so sure what sets it apart from some of the others. At any … Continue reading Reader Mysteries

Damn it -- my husband, who has some serious confidence issues and badly needs to get a career started at age 35, is turning in his application today to be a police recruit. I just found out that there is an automatic disqualifier if he's used marijuana at all in the past three years. He … Continue reading The Universe Strikes Again

Okay, I guess this will be my first "post that I couldn't post elsewhere"... My brother won a tv at his company picnic. He has two daughters -- one will turn one tomorrow and the other is three. Guess where the new tv is going? The three year old? Oh, heck no. She already has … Continue reading Too Much!

Why do people who know me think that whenever I write something it must be about them? I remember reading about this, that writers often are isolated either because people think the writer was writing about them, or because the writer actually was writing about them and it wasn't flattering. It must be a genuine … Continue reading Why Is It?

I'm struggling a little with the debate between how much the interpretation of a person's narrative is the responsibility of the writer and how much is the reader's. The straw that brought me here was a recent journal entry in which I was musing about why I always feel that someone is purposefully ignoring me … Continue reading Writer Baggage, Reader Baggage

Okay, to further deal with my foot-in-mouth incident, most of the people I've met in the Dionysus forums have been wonderfully focused on the God and on having a relationship with Him, and less on being militant about how that has to happen. The Hellenic forums have been excellent resources as well, as long as … Continue reading Moving Forward

Sorry guys... after my experience at the bookstore and then the email I received from a Hellenic Reconstructionist group that outright said Wiccans (and anyone else) who use magick to try to effect change in their lives are mentally unbalanced, I was just done! Still, I went a little overboard to make my point. I … Continue reading Er…

How is it that I always find myself interested in a mythology that takes me to the reconstructionists? It's so frustrating to have to go to a group of people who think Wiccans are the lowest form of scum -- one group I checked out even went so far as to say that any group … Continue reading Ugh — Elitists

I am a fluttery mass of excitement right now -- I can't even put the words together. Read this: http://www.hermeticfellowship.org/Dionysion/Maenads.html and then this: http://tracilaird.com/camp/path.html (which is the path I'm taking at camp) and then this: http://www.pantheon.org/articles/d/dionysus.html And I have a strong connection to and relationship with wine -- holy shit, shit, shit. I haven't had … Continue reading Maenads & Nymphs & Gods, Oh My!