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March 2017

March 08, 2017
This will be our last post for the Patheos Pagan channel. We'll keep writing, and...

February 2017

February 20, 2017
Our hemlock tree is dying. Seventy feet tall or more, its feathery top boughs filter...

November 2016

November 21, 2016
Lately I find myself very reluctant to post on Facebook about Rilke, or anything about...
November 13, 2016
Defeated, he would still have made hate speech part of ordinary political discourse. When his...
November 11, 2016
What does a spiritual writer do when life spirals out of control? What do you...

July 2016

July 25, 2016
I'm not the only way that Pagans grow into our religion. But I am one...
July 15, 2016
In the rally, we chant Black lives matter! and The killing has to stop! We...
July 04, 2016
Real community crosses boundaries. Real community has ragged edges: children and parents, lovers and spouses...

June 2016

June 29, 2016
There is something different about what is physically there, and what is spiritually there, as...
June 21, 2016
"Elder" is not a role we get to choose, however we may hunger for it....

May 2016

May 24, 2016
Four essays of mine have been published in new anthologies, and I'm especially thrilled to...

April 2016

April 25, 2016
Only I could turn Beltane into yet another guilt trip. But only Peter could remind...
April 24, 2016
Dear Thief Who Keeps Stealing My Black Lives Matter Sign, Thank you. While I realize...

February 2016

February 28, 2016
All of us are loved. All of us have the potential to become whole--more like...
February 03, 2016
To write about Spirit is to risk distorting or distracting from the experience itself, whether...

January 2016

January 23, 2016
Over the past few weeks, I have been sensing in my body that something important...
January 18, 2016
I wish I had never seen this, but I've actually seen it more times than...
January 07, 2016
This world is so beautiful. And yet, in spite of that, we humans manage to...

December 2015

December 10, 2015
Families change. Traditions evolve; we craft some that are new, and others we must lay...

November 2015

November 20, 2015
Grief is a skill, and one that improves with use.
November 16, 2015
This world is beautiful. This life is glorious. It is made of summer sunlight on...
November 10, 2015
October takes the breath away. But November is the world taking back that breath, taking...

October 2015

October 22, 2015
I worship the god of the hunt, the horned one who dies and is reborn,...
October 07, 2015
I've been working on my Crone's Wings, and I'm here to tell you: menopause is...

September 2015

September 30, 2015
Yes, Black Lives > White Tears. But it's hard to learn when you're in tears,...
September 28, 2015
I am bothered by the idea that racism is a social ill that's somehow outside...
September 22, 2015
I've never seen a point in piecing together a purely intellectual theology for an experience...

August 2015

August 24, 2015
I am tired, and I hear the shrill music of crickets and cicadas, singing their...

July 2015

July 28, 2015
I love this little patch of ground we live on. And tending its soil and...
July 22, 2015
Effortlessness is one of the shapes spiritual practice has. But without the luxury of time,...
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