I'm over at my personal weblog blogging for charity with the Blogathon. Please join me at the Shattered Prayer for some good wholesome…. okay maybe not so wholesome… fun - I'm telling true paranormal stories, doing free tarot readings, and raising money for a worthy cause. I'm also blogging in the nude! No pictures though, […]

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Katherine Neville was writing historical and/or religious conspiracy fiction before Dan Brown was even a twinkle in his publisher’s eye. Neville’s gigantic work of historical conspiracy fiction, The Eight has acheived cult status. The Magic Circle is one of her lesser known works.         There was a time when I liked religious conspiracy novels. […]

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I've joined the 2006 Blogathon and on July 29th I will be blogging every 30 minutes for 24 hours straight. My charity is The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. I wont be blogging from here, but from my personal journal, The Shattered Prayer, and appreciate any amount of support, through emails, comments, etc. […]

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I once spoke of the wood where I was, for a time, seemingly lost in another realm - Faery, perhaps. This same wood cradled in its midst a rather barren area, formed entirely of reddish clay and looking, in its empty strangeness, like some Martian landscape. Nothing would grow on it, except for an occasional […]

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Ah, the old adage "be careful what you wish for" rears its ugly head. Yes it seems my Harmonious House spell worked. The cats now get a long.
Somewhat. 
They play together.
 And they play and they play. 
 And they play. They race through the house, chasing and stalking each other, crashing into furniture, knocking over lamps, breaking […]

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I can't say I'm too fond of the idea of city-themed tarots, but of course, as soon as I make that proclamation, a tarot deck comes out that, although city-themed, blows me away. The The Tarot of Prague by Karen Mahoney and Alex Ukolov is a sumptuous deck collaged from the art and architechture of […]

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I evacuated New Orleans the day before Katrina was scheduled to make landfall. Our entourage - myself, two groups of neighbors, and our pets - fled first to Arkansas. When it became apparent that we would not be allowed to immediately return, we went our separate ways. I stayed with family in middle Georgia.
Shortly after […]

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I evacuated New Orleans the day before Katrina was scheduled to make landfall. Our entourage - myself, two groups of neighbors, and our pets - fled first to Arkansas. When it became apparent that we would not be allowed to immediately return, we went our separate ways. I stayed with family in middle Georgia.
Shortly after […]

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I lived in this town, in this very building, some twenty years ago. I moved here the first time just after my father died, and I moved here with a lot of unresolved grief. The grief is now resolved for the most part (though I'll always miss him) but there's probably some unresolved guilt left […]

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Many people wonder how, if as the British and U.S government have always claimed that U.F.O’s do not exist, how can computer nerd Gary Mckinnon be charged with breaking into U.S. files and reading them ?
How can you read what does not exist ?
And we are told 97 of these U.S defence computers held this […]

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