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July 2015

July 09, 2015

Land as Lover

Land shapes our views of the world, our experiences with future places, how we perceive...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Why I Am Not a Christian

Niki is on vacation. Why isn't she a Christian? She write about it all the...

June 04, 2015

On Turning 40

I turn 40 - and look back at the last decade of my life.

March 2015

March 23, 2015

Leaving Monotheism Behind

Shifting from monotheistic to polytheistic thinking changes one's outlook on life, but monotheistic thinking can...

September 2014

September 23, 2014

Community Complex

Whenever the discussion of community comes up and some one expresses dissatisfaction, inevitably a dude...

August 2014

August 01, 2014

(Not) Working with the Ancestors

I'm not entirely ignoring my Ancestors. I'm honoring them, but I am not working with...

July 2014

July 21, 2014

Chastity vs Hedonism

What's your goal? I don't think austerities are virtuous in and of themselves. They can...

July 10, 2014

Being Called While Young

Niki reminisces about being called by the god/s when she was 21.

June 2013

June 21, 2013

My Life is a Love Story

Falling in love is easy, if mysterious. It can be as simple as a chemistry-laden...

June 07, 2013

Identity

My birthday was this week. Birthdays and anniversaries are good times to reflect on one's...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Not of this world

On my way to the grocery store I pass two churches. The first is a...

April 13, 2013

Desire

Last night my husband and I went on a date. An actual dinner without children....

February 2013

February 27, 2013

What little I know about reincarnation

Reincarnation is a standard concept in Hinduism and pretty common in the wider Pagan world,...

February 21, 2013

Resistance is futile

Expansion, contraction, expansion, contraction. It would be nice if this was an easy, regular pattern...

March 2012

March 21, 2012

Place – what does that even mean?

Today begins a new quarter! Hurray! Or hwre, as they say in Welsh. When I...

March 15, 2012

Fifteen Years in the Wrong Shoes – part five

This is the final post in my 'testimony' series. (You can follow the links to...

February 2012

February 20, 2012

Fifteen Years in the Wrong Shoes – part four

This part of my testimony is all about graduate school, and it brings us up...

February 02, 2012

Fifteen Years in the Wrong Shoes – part three

When I left off last time I was married, miserable and crying during prayers. (You...

January 2012

January 23, 2012

Fifteen Years in the Wrong Shoes – part two

Thanks to my experienced readers I was reminded that the word for this type of...

January 17, 2012

Fifteen Years in the Wrong Shoes – part one

Something I remember from my years in Christianity is the practice of telling one’s story...