Too Long Away

I’m still not back in the swing of blogging, mostly because I need to do it from my phone. I’ve become someone who does so much from that little Android box and don’t open my laptop as much as I should. We are in a helluvan election year and I want...

Some Thoughts on Leadership

There are some interesting things happening in the American Pagan communities right now. (For those of you in those communities, you know this is not an unusual occurrence.) A man running for office in New York has been about on social media, warning of...

Hello…hello? Is this thing on?

I used to be a blogger. A very faithful blogger. In my first blogging gig (for my local daily Gannett paper) I wrote almost every day for many years about the local Pagan community and my thoughts about all kinds of things. After that, I blogged here. But with the...

Summer in the Country

Alex Bledsoe and I are both pondering whether the era of bloggery is drawing to a close. Certainly I have not been engaged with this process in several years. I began blogging at my local newspaper’s early online presence where I blogged pretty much every day....

Winter. Summer. Winter. Repeat.

We had our usual cold snap this past weekend–the one we call dogwood winter. Experienced gardeners in the area know which plants can reasonably be expected to survive temperatures in the 20s for a couple of days. My potatoes got “bitten” but the...