(offered particularly to Ramsay57 in honor of her birthday, and also, for those of us who worship among Christians, for Easter)i thank You God for most this amazing ( Read more... )

My old friend Nemo is going to be put to sleep on Thursday. After it's over I will write more if I can. He's a very old dog and spending most of his time dreaming, these days, just drifting off into the Summer Country, and now he's got something wrong with him that can't be fixed without making him suffer more than the cure is worth. It's time. I ( Read more... )

It is Imbolc again. I had hoped to have things to say about gods and madness and poetry and change, but all the music I seem to have these days is in my hands. Which is fine with me. I am very glad to have that back, after so long away. And music, too, was sacred to Brighid, whose day it is: to the Irish, She was the patron of the filidh, who were ( Read more... )

After a hiatus of something like 20 years, I've taken up the guitar again. This is largely thanks to my beloved friend Bear, who lent me his brother's unused steel-string Martin Sigda. I'd been having a hankering to play again, but I wasn't sure I could. Hence the loan. And it turned out that I hadn't forgotten too much to return to it.

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Yes, it's a bit late, but the delay gave me the chance to include several things I wouldn't have, if it had been on time.

Check it out:

Table of ContentsBecause the Christmas season basically ground me down to a powder, I had no time to nag writer friends (you know who you are!) into writing non-fiction for me, but I had a lot of poetry over the ( Read more... )

Since the summer solstice, I've been working on a piece so far titled "Madness/Gealt," which is about irrationality, God, the old Irish story of mad Sweeney, and the lessons nature has to teach -- more or less. I have been having trouble finishing it for a number of reasons, not the least of which was that a chunk of what I'd written really didn't ( Read more... )

On Thursday, December 15, I will be in NY for the following very lively and entertaining event, to which I invite anyone in the vicinity. At last report, Tristan Taormino will also be there.

(repost courtesy of Kathleen Warnock AKA Kyle Walker)

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Time for the holidays and between all your parties and nights of wild abandon, I hope you will ( Read more... )

I am searching for a solution: my friend Nemo (a small, very old, black & white dog) whom I have written about in other posts, needs a place to stay for January. His human is something of an airhead, and she is going to India, and she thought she had a sitter lined up for my poor old friend. I'd say, "at least she didn't plan on sticking him in a ( Read more... )

This is the note I just sent to contributors ( Read more... )

It's finally up -- I should have posted this last week, but I ran out of time.

Please go check out The Shadow Sacrament, a journal of BDSM spirituality. The first issue includes writing by Raven Kaldera, Sabrina Qedesha, Jean Roberta, L.A. Mistral, Callan Williams, Mistress Meli, Senta Holland, and myself, the editor -- Skian McGuire. I am really ( Read more... )