by Byron Ballard | May 3, 2018
Festival season has begun! This past weekend, I was in French Lick, Indiana for Our Haven’s Beltaine festival. It’s my second year for this one and I enjoyed it so much. I leave town tomorrow bound for Circle Sanctuary and another weekend of Beltane...
by Byron Ballard | Apr 12, 2018
Good evening, old friends. Festival season is gearing up and I will be on the road a lot this summer. As soon as I’ve heard from one more festival, I’ll post them all here. Maybe some of you will come find me when I teach in your neck of the woods. This...
by Byron Ballard | Nov 13, 2017
I am home from the road. For now. The grounding of my life is the land here in the southern highlands of the old Appalachian mountains but the road is always tempting me to go farther, to travel more, to be compact and joyful as a rambling woman. A rambling woman. A...
by Byron Ballard | Jun 12, 2017
o dear… So…today I had brunch with my friends Mia and John, and my work-wife, Star. Mia asked me if I had posted where I’ll be appearing for the rest of the year and I looked at her blankly. Recovering what passes for my composure these days,...
by Byron Ballard | May 5, 2017
Aiaiaiai! The proof for my new book–Embracing Willendorf–has been in my hands since Monday evening and the first bulk order has been placed by the publisher, Smith Bridge Press. You can order it through the publisher’s website, by clicking on the...
by Byron Ballard | Dec 31, 2016
I was trying to take a nap a couple of days ago and kept getting interrupted. This is my interrupted-nap face 2016 has made us stronger, more introspective, clearer on what we will and won’t tolerate. It has been an extraodinary year–the sort of time that...
