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March 2018

March 12, 2018

Amok In America

The fault, dear Americans, is not in our guns, but in ourselves, that we are...

January 2018

January 28, 2018

Alone, No One Wins Freedom: An Appreciation of Ursula K. Le Guin

I was nine years old, give or take a year or two, and I was...

January 13, 2018

Everything Is Broken (So Let’s Fix It)

Even the tools to fix the broken things were broken. But if you write about...

January 07, 2018

The Empress Restored: A Dream And Tarot Reading For 2018

Every spread of the cards is a funhouse mirror, reflecting what comes before it, distorting...

January 01, 2018

In 2018 I Resolve To Believe In You

Fractal Cat is a Baltimore band that I've been fortunate enough to watch come together...

December 2017

December 23, 2017

Happy Festivus! (On Satire And Parody Religion)

"Religious humor is a form of 'deep play' that works to renegotiate ideas about tradition,...

December 21, 2017

Magic And Change At The End Of Time

Change is going to happen. That's pretty much an inevitable part of existence. But if...

December 17, 2017

Yule: Going Slowly In the Dark

Here in the dark of the year even the weather invites us, demands of us,...

December 10, 2017

Thoughts On The Great American Sexual Harassment Phase Change Of 2017

As some try to impose order on the inherently chaotic world of sex, romance, and...

November 2017

November 28, 2017

Nazis Are People, Too (As Much As We Want To Disown Them)

If reportage like this seems to normalize race hatred, perhaps that should be a reminder...

November 16, 2017

I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends

One of the Three Treasures of Buddhism is the sangha, the community of seekers. Budo...

November 13, 2017

Healing At Autumn Fires

Then I started dancing. And it became a ritual, the unloading of a million pounds...

November 02, 2017

The Return Of The Son Of Random Wednesdays

It's been a while since we've had a Random Wednesday post. But it's Pagan New...

October 2017

October 30, 2017

Samhain: My Father Is Dead

My father's death puts me in a different relationship with my ancestors, and I will...

October 17, 2017

An Open Letter To Barry Manilow: Please Help My Mom

Dear Mr. Manilow, The last thing my father did in his life was take my...

September 2017

September 25, 2017

A Eulogy For My Father, Mark Swiss

We have hopes about an afterlife. I guess some of us have fears -- Dad...

September 19, 2017

Life Is a Series of Dogs

If we love a dog, the odds are very good that they will die before...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

Hearts and Heads in Houston

Somewhere out there among the ordinary people saving lives in Houston is a guy with...

August 27, 2017

Love Starts With Boundaries

But we have to operate in both the realms of absolute and relative truth. It...

August 17, 2017

Nazis Are Bad. Now What?

While both are wrong, there is not a moral equivalence here between punching someone and...

August 14, 2017

The Fire Circle: All Kinds Magic Worked Here

The fire circle is an audience participation event. In fact, there is no audience. We're...

August 14, 2017

Knowledge, Victory, and Empathy

You have to get into your opponent's head. So to be a good fighter, you...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

Starwood 2017: An Unconventional Convention

Starwood is a magickal adventure construction set. A variety of pieces are provided, but it's...

July 27, 2017

Doctor Who: Continuity and Gender Politics

But we fans of long-running franchises also value internal consistency, a.k.a. continuity. Of course no...

July 14, 2017

FSG: Music and The Morrigan

So the Morrigan, that Celtic goddess (or trinity of goddesses) of war and death (but...

June 2017

June 17, 2017

Remembering Ringo

A heart that never cares is safe from grieving. But that's not what hearts are...

June 07, 2017

Reason, Social Justice, and Dionysian Frenzy

No disrespect to Dionysus, but social justice is not a job to which you send...

May 2017

May 23, 2017

Kyoto: The Ancestors Are Watching (Photo, 52 Make-up Week 18)

Catching up with posting the pieces from the 52 Make-Up Challenge. This entry and the...

May 21, 2017

Punctuated Equilibrium and Political Evolution

My interlocutor demands that we pick the best dinosaur. But the asteroid has already hit,...

May 20, 2017

Blessing Computers? Why Not?

Some corners of the net are getting a lot of incredulous chuckles about a photo...

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