Those of you who follow my various print forums know that I have been tracking the recent hullabaloo regarding the "Twilight" series and its portrayal of the relationship between the heorine, Bella, and the vampire. This blog post might not go quite where you think it will, but I'm going to put a cut here, for the sake of politeness...

( Speaking Out Against Sexual Violence )

I'm going to start at the end, instead of the beginning, because there are two quotes, both given at sumble, which in my opinion encapsulate everything about the blot Two Ravens Kindred hosted Saturday ( Read more... )

You saw the Veteran's Day post I made yesterday. This is the email I got beck from my grandfather, Leon Lafaille, World War II Veteran:

Thanks for the great tribute to our veterans and veterans everywhere. I pray that some day mankind can solve their differences in a humane and peaceful manner. May the future be blessed with love and we will not ( Read more... )

It's November 11 ( Read more... )

http://www.circlesanctuary.org/healing/CircleTimes_8Nov09.htmRead more... )

So Thursday last, Dave Carron and I instituted a wild and crazy experiment. We used Skype's chat ("conference call") feature to instigate a live heathen chat ( Read more... )

THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death ( Read more... )

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As you havce no doubt noticed, I tend toward the long-winded. I know it is considered generally polite in the blogging community to insert cut-tags so that people's screens are not overwhelmed. You'll also note that I've tried - unsuccessfully! - to do that, and failed.

I think I might have just figured out what the problem was...testing ( Read more... )

I'm sure my gentle readers already know this from various other blogs (including the Wild Hunt Blog), but in case you've been hiding under a rock, Isaac Bonewits has been diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer.  Fortunately, it seems that this form is responsive to chemotherapy and radiation, so he may not need surgery.  He and his wife, ( Read more... )