This is Sam. Sam's a cat. Hail ‘n’ welcome to February, the longest month of the year. That’s my relationship with this month, and that’...

I have my personal new year at my birthday, and then there’s this one that so many of us share. Historically, I’ve not given this one a lot ...

  Today I woke early. Most folx who know me would likely say I wake early every day. And I do. So, when I say, “Today I woke early,” I’m tal...

  Here in my realm of our shared reality, the season of spring arrives later today with the vernal equinox. My long-time tradition for this ...

  It has been a full week. Full, as in overflowing. Full, as in so much of the Work culminating with mystery, validation, and clarity. I se...

Today, March 13, marks a long time of loving anniversary. I first laid eyes on my spouse in 1976, during college orientation. It wasn’t a r...

Some magick ya just gotta share... I stepped outside to do one of my recently renewed rituals. A ritual I've dedicated to Fetch. As I st...

February arrives, and I find myself in the days of Imbolc, the Indo-European name for this sacred liminal space between winter solstice and ...

  This past full  Lughnasadh  moon, the first of two full moons this August, has expressed a pronounced yet gentle verve to me. One of my ha...

I give thanks to this harve st, to the spirit of these plants, to the spirit of their Medicine… tansy, summer savory, and peppermint, and to...

  Or, if you prefer, happy April fools' day.  That, and a new moon too. This April arrives with me emptying, 'n' releasing, as i...

  I've been experiencing enormous comfort from these insistent rains, and in working in the officina (apothecary, if you prefer) these p...

May Day arrives, cool, gusty, sunny, and with the promise of warming spring days, and still-expanding daylight. May Day arrives marking the ...

February, the last full month of winter, managed to live up to old, notable patterns by offering much-needed snowfall,  and  by taking its t...

To those of you who honor and celebrate the linear measure of calendar time: Happy new year!  It is - indeed - an extended moment of collect...

The thriving October garden. Blooms for the pollinators. Past, present and future. October is the month in which I prepare for the new year....

Yesterday the big bowl came out to accommodate the big bag of hot peppers generously gifted by a family member. Organically grown, and so...

Yesterday I bottled two gallons of 2018/2019 farmer’s wine. This sweet, organic, cane sugar wine was made with black currant, rhubarb...

Just as the last of the transplants are placed in the earth, other plants come full with a demanding shout, "Harvest! Harvest!" ...

Merry spring, friends! Or autumn, as the case may be. 😊 Yesterday's vernal equinox ushered in the season for which I am ripe, as I...