The Pagan Grove

Ah, the earth.  Is there anything more ubiquitous in modern Paganism?  Many, if not most, Pagans will use terms like 'earth-centered...

photo courtesy of wikicommons The Saga of Hákon the Good was written sometime in the 1260's, describing the reign of King Hákon I, ...

Thank goodness for being able to schedule posts, because I've been pretty absent over the past couple of weeks.  Between illness in...

This past Saturday, my children and I gathered in the garden to perform an old Anglo-Saxon ritual - the  Æcerbot , first recorded in the ...

Photo by Cassi Saari.  Creative Commons license. I have always had a closeness with birch trees.  The stark white bark of many varieties...

Alright, so Stonehenge may not have been a temple (we don't really know), and it certainly wasn't a Druid temple, but it's s...

It's beautiful outside today - a lovely 60 degrees with a clear blue sky as far as the eye can see.  The eggplants are all ready for h...

The nights are becoming a bit longer, the days a bit shorter.  Here on the prairie, we've been watching the canadian geese and many othe...

It's a boy!  That's right - the reason I've been incommunicado for so long was the trials and travails of dealing with the...