Shade and Sweetwater

Spring has been making an effort, and seems finally to have overcome winter for dominance of the weather.  The days are longer, things have ...

From time to time (read: almost every dang day), I find myself stroking my chin thoughtfully (or, more likely, in pensive confusion over the...

I wrote this on Thursday, but I didn't want to publish it until there was time for people to find out via means other than my blog.  N...

I'm not afraid of the black dog. Harbinger.  Death Omen. I'm not afraid of the black dog. Shadow beast. Fell beast. I'm not af...

I have been told, at various times, that discussing or blogging about dreams is...boring. Ah, well, I have never made claims or pretensions ...

One week ago this afternoon, the world became a little more shadowed as a brilliant soul passed through the veil. Kathryn Ann Fernquist...

The world lost a bright soul, a shiny person, earlier this week.  I'm still reeling, and I didn't have the honor of knowing her as w...

This morning I woke up weepy, and it hasn't let up.  Every damned thing makes my eyes leak. I wish I had someone to lean on. I mean, I h...

Strange days. Mum called me this evening to let me know that my grandmother passed through the veil at the beginning of the year. Oddly, Isa...

It's almost Yule - two days away and I'm almost-but-not-quite ready for it.  Here's the annual repost with alterations to make...

Here followeth a Casa de Crazy Thanksgiving Day Tradicion: We hope you have a pleasant, tasty, mellow, comfortable, not-at-all-contentious...

I have a few traditions on Thanksgiving. Not many - the menu, recording the Macy's parade so I can watch it and fast-forward through all...

Every year I post the menu for out Casa de Crazy Thanksgiving extravaganza and every year I wonder why I don't just cut and paste from l...

It is Saturday of Thanksgiving week and there is much happening here at the Casa. The kids and I are terrorizing the cats...er...tidying up...

My nose and feet are cold.  COLD! It's 72 degrees inside Casa de Crazy and I have cold body parts. Oy. ~~~~~ There is something deeply s...

Between sleep and waking there is a place of half aware, half dream, where the mind weaves the input of the senses with threads of fantasy. ...

Pandora. Her name means "all gifts". She was created as a punishment to men for Prometheus's gift of fire.  She was given t...

I like grist mills.  I like watching the water turn the wheel, the wheel turn the big metal rod thingies, the cogs and sprockets and whats...

When I was a kid, there was a weird little game that, at the time, was enormous fun - Don't Spill the Beans. Playing was fairly sim...

Lately it seems like I haven't been witching much.  Other things going on, distractions, life tangling me up in its strands.  Yesterd...