An active shooter differs from a mass shooter. An active shooter refers to someone that shoots three or fewer people in a populated area. A mass shooter refers to someone that shoots four or more people in a populated area. Both are bad, but a mass shooter is worse in…

A poignant post came across one of the entirely too many Facebook groups that I inhabit from a place of no participation. Someone had begun working with a group of spirits, all towards the goal of self-improvement. …

As far as we know, no one’s root ancestors are/were white. Push past the way racial designations are merely social constructs, push past the valid complications of white supremacy and cultural theft/oppression, and push past all of the woke witches with bad research skills calling everything that might somehow violate…

I walked away from all of them in 2011. The gaslighting, body shaming, verbal abuse, and “Christianity” all became too much for my mental health. After a birthday that involved a parade of performance and abuse, I simply changed my phone number, returned any cards or packages (which ended in…

On March 8, 2020, Llewellyn Ltd. officially released Urban Magick: a Guide for the City Witch. I had heard about coronavirus — I had gone on a date with someone that had to evacuate China because of it. As he described the strangeness of the exodus over drinks at Martuni’s…

I’ve written and published professionally for going into 30 years. I entered the Pagan subculture 26 years ago, and in the last ten, I broadened my expanse from the Pagan/Wiccan world to the whole of the magical world. …

Somehow, GISH — greatest international scavenger hunt — found its way inside the quarantine trailer. My partner, apparently a secret nerd just waiting to come out, had watched the antics from afar in previous years but never partook. From the look on their face, it did seem like missing out…

This year’s Pantheacon was different for me. Not because of its bittersweet end, but because for me it marks a new beginning. I am well aware of the political in the history of Pantheacon, and the dance of exclusion and inclusion that comes with it. I have already made my…