Happy Beltaine to all my pagan and witchy friends, and happy spring to everyone else… I hope you enjoy a wee bit of Welsh mythology and a recipe for a sweet Beltaine treat our family indulges in, all excerpts from my Creating New Pagan Family Traditions – Beltaine chapbook.

We All Have a Role
It’s Victim Awareness Week in Canada. What happens with the person is victim of the police or legal system, and not some random criminal? Or both? Yeah… you gotta think on that one, don’t you?

Technically this will be posting in week 16. Unfortunately I didn’t notice it hadn’t posted until too late to fix it.
It has been a long, hard couple of weeks here. My mom was very ill, and came very close to literally breathing her last. I think it made all of us look at our life choices and such with a little more speculation than we had been previously.
I for one am even more grateful that I kicked the habit years ago, which is something I wish my mother had done. …

I don’t have much time to write this post, and I’ll have to schedule it to post later in the week just in case I can get back and flesh it out. If I don’t, please make do with what’s here. And ignore the sarkiness. If you haven’t noticed yet, I’m a bitter old bitch.

My younger brother is hawking his marketing skills on a services-for-a-fee website called Fiverr. I’ve mentioned it before, boosting his signal a tiny bit by posting his link in a past post.
Not too long ago, my eldest daughter joined the ranks as well. She’s offering services in creating a personalized Youtube background.
I tried it out myself, with one silly little thing, and then decided to go all out, and was bitten with the Fiverr Feverr.
http://fiverr.com/jodil33
I have three gigs listed – simple cover design, proofread of 3000 words, and substantive edit …