Grumpy Star and The Lovers’ Tarot Deck
When the Universe wants you to learn a lesson, it will ask nicely at first, and then it pulls out the cosmic baseball bat to knock the lesson into you. Since Beltaine I’ve been pushed out of my comfort...
View ArticleMy Love Affair with Bookstores
The saddest fact of my life is that I live in a county without a bookstore. True, we have a place that specializes in antique books, but particular editions of Gone With the Wind or bejeweled Victorian...
View ArticleBook Review: Raven Grimassi’s Old World Witchcraft
This book is bold, and not at all what I expected. Although he’s been one of the author’s on my “to-read” list for years, I actually met Raven Grimassi before I read one of his books. At the urging of...
View ArticleBook Review: Christian Day’s The Witches’ Book of the Dead
I don’t generally bother to review books I don’t think I’ll care for, especially with a stack of books I actually want to read waiting on me. Not being Christian Day’s biggest fan, I was reluctant to...
View ArticleA Few of My Favorite Things (13 To Be Precise)
It would be disingenuous of me to write a holiday gift guide since I have sworn off gifts this year. It also feels wrong to write a “Best of 2011″ list when my “liturgical year” has already ended, and...
View ArticlePagan Soup: Gay Founding Fathers, Ivo Dominguez Jr. and Paganish Movies
The Founder of the US Army was Gay? Cara Schulz brought this fantastic bit of trivia to my attention: Von Steuben was an able field commander and was Chief of Staff to Washington. His efforts during,...
View ArticleAn Occult Memoir of New York: A Review of James Wasserman’s “In The Center Of...
My feelings regarding books sent to me for review are mixed. I don’t have a lot of free time for reading. Reading a book and then reviewing it requires a significant time and energy commitment on my...
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