A bit of a re-post from my other blog, I’m happy to say that we’ve finished tweaking and testing and fiddling with Lughnasadh, and it’s now available on Smashwords, Etsy and soon it’ll be up on Amazon for the Kindle. Probably within another week or so, it’ll start popping up through other retailers as well.

 
Lughnasadh, also known as Hlaf-mass (Loaf-mass), August Eve, Tailltean Games, Lammas, and Harvest Home, is named for the Celtic God of fire and sun, Lugh.
It is the beginning of the end of summer, of the growing …

I’ve had a work in progress running for over a decade, I don’t often talk about it anymore because I purposely distanced my beliefs and practices* from the self I was working towards being. I lost a lot of myself in doing so, and am so glad to be finding myself again amidst my notes and files; in this day and age my spirituality really shouldn’t be an issue, anyway.

I am a villain when it comes to plants. I’ve been known to kill silk plants. Yes, really. I watched the leaves fall from a silk arrangement after I’d moved it around a bit and set it out. Generally, house plants are dead within a month, and the longest we’ve had one is six weeks.
I wasn’t always like this. I used to have beautiful house plants. African Violets were my favorite, as well as Dieffenbachia, Schefflera, Mimosa, Chlorophytum, Pothos, English Ivy, and Amaryllis. I used to have loads of …

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.

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.