March 17, 2024

Some problems can’t be fixed. Sometimes no amount of effort, no amount of money, no amount of influence can fix a problem. Sometimes all you can do is to make it through the day. Sometimes all you can do is survive and advance. Read more

March 10, 2024

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein is as relevant today as it was when she first wrote it. Treat people monstrously and they will become monsters. Treat people monstrously and you will become a monster yourself. Read more

March 6, 2024

There are serious ethical issues with the way AI plagiarizes art and with how some companies use AI to keep from paying artists. This isn’t that conversation. This is something simpler, more basic, more personal. I’m already tired of AI art. Read more

March 3, 2024

Too many people – many of whom call themselves witches – are unable to recognize when their magic works. They never experience the thrill of a successful spell, they’re unable to learn from their mistakes and from their successes, and they never build the confidence they need to work magic effectively when they have an urgent need. Read more

February 25, 2024

First they came for abortion. Then they came for IVF. They’ll keep coming for more and more rights until they’re stopped. The Alabama IVF case is not the ruling of a court in a constitutional republic. It’s the ruling of a theocracy. Read more

February 21, 2024

The call to deeper magic and spirituality often comes subtly. At first you’re barely aware of it, but the desire grows over time. These are five practices that have worked for me, and I’m confident they’ll work for you too. Read more

February 18, 2024

In 1901, 19 year old Mary MacLane wrote about her love for her “anemone lady” and her frustration with living in a small Western town where opportunities were few and opportunities for women were fewer. She wrote “oh, kind Devil, deliver me from it!” Read more

February 11, 2024

The Christians who argue “Pagan religions aren’t authentic because they have no continuity with the ancients” usually skip the other part: “you have no continuity because we destroyed it.” And also, they’re wrong. Read more

February 4, 2024

Re-enchantment is a way of seeing the world and relating to the world that happens on an individual level. Our world is already enchanted. We just have to learn how to see that enchantment and relate to it. Read more

January 28, 2024

Occasionally I hear someone say “if there is no God then life has no meaning.” I’m a theist, but I don’t agree. Finding meaning in life doesn’t require Gods, much less any one particular God. It just requires a choice. Read more


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