Bear with me, this probably isn't going to make sense, but I felt a strong need to write it down ( Read more... )

I found Paganism when I was a teen. I was always a kid interested in the occult, not because it was ‘dangerous’ or ‘bad’ but because it was there I found the explanations for the magic I already believed in. At my library, I checked out books on magic and witchcraft as often as I checked out books on fantasy and folklore. I believed thoroughly that ( Read more... )

I swear I started answering these on New Year's Eve!

( The Old Chestnut: 40 Qs about the Old Year on the Eve of the New )

Well, actually, it's the half-a-block long Mayflower semitruck sloppily parked outside my apartment door that brings the cops, but still.. *grin ( Read more... )

There is something about being at a rock show that just fills my spirit. Ever since my first MCR shows, ever since my first festivals, when the music dragged my feet stageside until I could feel the music thumping behind my ribcage, like a second heartbeat, being at a show has charged up my spirit and filled me with life. When I'm at a show all my ( Read more... )

Currently hanging out at a friend's house in New York, listening to the Youtube preview, and gorging on kitty time. {meow meow we make out now meow?}I can't decide what's better, furry faces or hearing something new from Mr Way ( Read more... )

Real quick, because my internet time is almost up: I have a home. I have a little tiny one bedroom apartment on a busy street in a tiny New Jersey town, over a florist's shop. I'm sleeping on an air mattress, eating carrot sticks and peanut butter, and drinking coffee. I have a pet spider. I see trees out the bedrooom windows, and the tops of old ( Read more... )

This move is the biggest, most complicated, most difficult thing I’ve ever done. I feel a bone-deep desperation to finally build a life of my own, to finally - for the first time in my life - try to be an independent woman, and I’m afraid that I’m going to fail. This move feels like a last chance for me. This year is the tenth anniversary of my ( Read more... )

So does watching youtube vids of the guys in action, but that’s more problematic, since my video-watching activities are limited to library days, and beaming at the screens of public library computers is just so undignified ( Read more... )

To be honest, I still don"t know how to describe this recent road trip. I used to call my show excursions "sprees" but they stopped being that a long time ago: now I want transformation when I hit the road. I want magic as well as music. And I usually get it. But it isn"t always pretty. It isn"t always shiny ( Read more... )