I look up from stirring sauce and my eye twitches. The cherry tree has disappeared and the window is black.

Is the shadow beyond the glass a someone or a something?

Then everyone comes home, piling in.

Summer closing down has me suspicious and unbalanced; “off”, panicky or crotchety; disoriented. Starting and stopping things. Literally, the world tilts as I walk to the garden and it feels like falling.

Do you feel it too?

Do you need a sign? This is it. Florence Scovel Shinn was a New Thought author from the early 20th century, which was the school of thought that evolved into the Law of Attraction spirituality. I found a compilation of all her books at the thrift shop on Saturday....

The movie Jaws changed the beach for lots of us (of a certain age) forever. For at least one summer none of us kids went in the water. We just lay on the sand without sunscreen, vying for that Coppertone tan. I remember my friend Lauren fell asleep with her arms over...

I don’t care what happens to you, it means something. Never mind whether or not you caused it through your negative, out- of–the-vortex thinking. I am not talking about your subconscious childhood programming that blocks you from wealth or success or healthy...

Well, Hello Again I am on a month-long book tour with Bewitching Books Tours and this article is from one of guest blog opportunities. I write about one of my favorite topics – gardening. I have a micro flower farm on Long Island, where my grandparents farmed a...

This week my book Midnight Pages is on tour! This is the blogpost I wrote for A Bewitching Guide to Halloween all about the Motherpeace Tarot deck and the archetypes and symbols of the deck and the night. Feel free to leave comments. Hi There! Thank you for welcoming...

When I was in my late twenties I lit a fire and burned all my journals. It wasn’t a ritual, I was disgusted by how I kept repeating the same sh*t over and over -- with my father, my relationships and with the moods that whipsawed me and made me a holy terror to work...

I am shifting my flower farm, Your Vintage Blooms to a permaculture model. I’ve already been no-till gardening, eg. I don’t disrupt the soil with turning it over to plant every spring. For the past four years I’ve let the rototiller stay broken. Permaculture goes...

Sorry this might be long-ish and passionate… This week somebody told me they’d met a witch and learned a lot from her. A weird doubt came up: Is that woman witchier than me? Wait! Am I witchy enough? WTF? Witchy enough for what? Once, a guy told me he didn’t want to...

How did you get here? Wicca found me when I was 24. I always knew I was looking for something. It was long before the internet so there was no such thing as “going online” and nowhere to “post” for a coven to join. And anyway, I was a solitary even then. It was just...