I have a pretty light schedule for CONvergence 2012, which is good, as I'll be on "gimp guard" for my three-weeks-post-op beloved. Still, I'm excited about the things on the agenda ( Read more... )

( Friday )

Well. Lookit me be so far behind in my journaling!

So! ( The Smackdown was epic fun. )

My first official post as No Unsacred Place staff writer honors the memory of MPR's Tom Keith and contemplates the role of people in the story of place.

People of the Story: Tom Keith.

ytinas and I went to see Freshwater Theatre's production of The Book of Liz at Nimbus. Herein lies my review, which is not so much a review of the performance as (as is my wont) the play itself. Or, ultimately, a review of myself. Wank wank wank ( Read more... )

Halfway to campus, I start feeling fraudulent. I'm a little old married lady with two cats and a crochet hook. The fuck I can tell undergraduates about LGBT life in the Twin Cities ( Read more... )

Vacations, I think, are among life's necessities. Even if you can't go far, or long, just getting away for a while is truly a boon.

Accordingly, on Sunday afternoon, Leora and I loaded bulging panniers onto our bikes and rode seven miles along historic, tree-lined Summit Avenue to Cathedral Hill Bed and Breakfast, where we bedded and breakfasted ( Read more... )

Apparently, yesterday was “Menace a Cyclist” day here, and no one told me. I have never been yelled at, honked at, buzzed, and otherwise antagonized by drivers so many times in one ride. It harshed my squee ( Read more... )

Whew. I feel like I owe my lj the world's biggest update post. But nobody reads World's Longest Update Posts, so, to paraphrase immortal words, "Is too much. Let me sum up."

Leora the Sane and I went to the 4th Street Fantasy Convention (I'm sorry. I can't bring myself to call it a "conversation", though much conversing was had) and enjoyed it ( Read more... )

To "know my place". To be truly familiar with where I live. To indwell.

Chas Clifton addresses a lot of this in his 1998 essay "Nature Religion for Real". For this entry, I want to add a couple of reasons why I consider the study of and grounding in place central to my Pagan practice.

1) Reverence. If I am going to claim (and I do) that I ( Read more... )