My spouse and I are really lucky. We live on around three acres right by the Conococheague Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River that’s large enough to take a kayak down. The land we belong to has been settled for a long time – our home was originally the toll house for a flour…
Category: Nature
As a Unitarian Universalist, one of the things I love when researching religions is commonality – finding similar practices across cultures, belief systems, and geography. As a Pagan whose religious roots reach deeply into history, these threads of similar practice and approach anchor me ever more firmly to the sacred world we share and the…
In what should not be a surprise for anyone who knows me even a little, I am a former theater kid. Where some families are focused around sports, my family of origin was focused around the arts. I have been a performer my entire life. As a member of a theater family, this meant that…
There is a stereotype within the Pagan community that gets encapsulated as “Epic Wolf Shirt Guy.” It’s an extreme form of animal kinship. Epic Wolf Shirt Guy has an animal they really resonate with, usually something sort of stereotypically Pagan, hence the wolf being the prime example of this stereotype. The joke is that they…