PSA: New Scam Targeting Authors
There is a new scam aimed at authors, and perhaps other content creators, going around.How it works is that creators get an email telling us how wonderful our book is and they offer a way to reach new readers.
My Travel Altar
(First of a series of three.) Witches love their altars, and we especially love the many beautiful things we use to make our altars the unique structures they are. Taking them with us is rarely practical . . . so what can we do instead? My solution was to create a portable altar.
What I am Grateful For
For many of us, this is a month where we take time to contemplate what we are grateful for. In these times, that can feel cruelly hard. Yet, remembering there is more than hardship in our lives has value. I am grateful, first and foremost, for my husband. He has been in my life for […]
Travel During Mercury Retrograde
At lunch the other day, a friend mentioned that she needed to find the chapter in my book about traveling during mercury retrograde. I was a bit chagrined to have to tell her that I didn’t have anything specific in the book about it. I will rectify that now! Especially since Himself will be doing […]
Checking off
This lovely piece of decorated porcelain is a bucket list item. Decades ago, I wrote a list of things I wanted to achieve in my life. This item read: buy a piece of Belleek, green mark or older, in a secondhand shop in Ireland. I wrote this list long before my first trip to Ireland […]
2025 Tarot Reading
Each year I do a tarot reading to accompany my annual review and goal setting and ask what the coming year will bring.
No, It’s Not Called Mabon
It’s September, and my social media is filling up with references to Mabon as, once again, it seems like almost all of pagandom is calling this month’s sabbat. But it’s a terrible name for this sabbat, as I think you’ll see.
Tomorrow is the day!
I mean, how excited can I get????
Annual Review and Goals (2025)
Each year at my birthday I review the previous year, celebrate my accomplishments, and set goals for the coming year. (Here’s my post from last year.) Sometimes I adjust those goals a bit at the witches’ new year (Samhain). Over the years I’ve learned to set fewer and smaller goals to allow for new opportunities […]
Contest Winners!
On this, my fifth book, I decided to try holding a contest to give three people the chance to win a free copy of A Traveler’s Guide to Making Magic. I kept the rules simple: * Follow me, and either:* share image(s) of the most magical places you have visited* share images or describe your […]