Book Birth Day!
A Green Witch’s Cupboard is LIVE! You can find it in paperback at Amazon US or Amazon UK. It will take a few days for it to reach other Amazon outlets and what they call “expanded distribution” (competitors). After looking at...
Cover Reveal!
Phew! After many trials and tribulations, A Green Witch’s Cupboard is nearing completion! Here’s the cover: Do you love it as much as I do? If everything goes as planned (cough) it should be available in paperback and e-book by the...
OMG- Fleas!
I can’t believe it. All four cats are indoor cats (their only “outside” is the deck, which has no egress), yet we got fleas. Obviously, they came in with the humans – or maybe that bat Maks caught about a month ago…...
New Orleans Travelogue
Bear with me…this is going to be a long one because I have so much to share! As many of you are aware, friends of mine host the New Orleans Witches Ball. I went to the first one in 2011 and hadn’t been back until a chum of mine (from...
A Familiar’s Tale – Part XII
I had another visit to the ether, then opened my eyes to find a teat in my mouth – I was nursing. A quick glance around told me I probably was a dog and had five siblings. The sound of small children squealing, laughing, playing, whatever small...
Witchcraft & Technology
Something I’ve been thinking about for some time. This post brought the subject to the forefront. I hear (well, read) a lot of folks saying they practice their magic as did their ancestors. Right underneath that statement is a photo of a...
A Familiar’s Tale – Part XI
Our trip was, as you say, smooth sailing. The ship skimmed along the water, even after leaving a port on the northern end of Sardinia, when it had to zig-zag to travel in a more southerly direction. However, as I had pointed out earlier to...
A Familiar’s Tale – Part X
How different the ocean air than that next to a river! I found it heavier and had to adjust my flight to compensate. Then there was the salt that accumulated on my feathers. I was not meant to live in such an environment and told Korbis so by...
A Familiar’s Tale – Part IX
For over forty years, Tal and Korbis traveled the province of Aragon, settling for about ten years in any one place before Tal got the itch to move on once again. At each town, Tal would start a garden with seeds he’d saved of the healing herbs...
Today in the Garden
Got out today for the first time in almost 2 weeks. It rained, then I sprained a toe, then it rained… I’d like to say I was playing in the dirt but in reality, kids and I could have made some marvelous mud pies with the dirt in the...
The Alphabet of Galen – A Review
If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you know I love reading historical herbals and other medicinal texts. I find comparing what “they” knew “then” to what we know today an interesting (and sometimes...
A Familiar’s Tale – Part VIII
This is where Korbis shined. He learned from Tal which herbs were used for what, how to blend them to make medicinal wine, how to use mechanical methods as well as magic to set a broken bone…all the tools of a physician of the time. Several times...