April 9, 2025
Imagining bright green futures is the first step in getting there. In this post I share the future I desire and inspirations for my stories.
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February 16, 2025Beech trees offer a spark of inspiration. Some thoughts on how to be bright, how to catch inspiration. -
November 16, 2024'Tis the season for speculative fiction award nominations, including the biggies: Nebulas, World Fantasy, Locus, and Hugos. My debut novel T... -
November 12, 2024I began writing The Working when the self-help book The Secret was all the rage. An alternate title for my novel: The Real Secret. -
November 1, 2024I don't feel ready for Samhain and communing with my Ancestors. Plus, from Tower to Star: carrying the elixir of hope. -
October 29, 2024Here's a supplement to my novel, The Working---a gift to my readers! I deleted this backstory sequence from the final version of The Working... -
September 20, 2024Join me for a book launch party Tuesday October 8th from everywhere! (It's online) I'm so excited to celebrate The Working's birth with you. -
August 21, 2024Here are my upcoming appearances, workshops, and events. Hope to see you soon! I'll update this post regularly, so check back. -
July 21, 2024The Working is solarpunk! I hedged on this tag for the last few weeks. But I talked myself back into the label. -
June 6, 2024As we approach the launch of my debut speculative novel, The Working, I'll post videos about the book. The first one: me reading the opening... -
April 19, 2024This doodle is a placeholder as we work on the cover for THE WORKING, my forthcoming speculative novel. -
February 12, 2024I've signed with Water Dragon Publishing to bring you my debut lunarpunk novel, The Working! I look forward to you meeting the coven who mus... -
February 2, 2024It's Imbolc amidst climate chaos. Cycles are out of whack, and yet our kin in Nature find ways to survive. -
January 4, 2024I'm co-offering an online, reimagined version of Elements of Magic, Reclaiming Tradition's first core class. It begins mid-February. -
December 21, 2023Two messages came through my hand as I drew the doodle to accompany this Solstice post. One about energy flow across seasons, and one about ... -
October 31, 2023At this time of working with my Ancestors, I clearly heard my Descendants. What a gift! -
October 18, 2023My story, "Thank Geo," is included in Solarpunk Creatures. While set in the solarpunk future I've been writing, a main character is unlike a... -
September 27, 2023Always wanted to go to a Witchcamp but cost, travel, time weren't feasible? A wonderful team of Reclaiming Trad Witches are hosting an onlin... -
August 13, 2023I am a solarpunk Witch. Solarpunk is great shorthand for how I live and describes my magic, writing, and teaching. How do I express solarpun... -
June 23, 2023A few days back, a tree frog spent the whole day sleeping on our garden gate. True, they are nocturnal, so it wasn't like they were taking... -
February 16, 2023I'm first up in a blog conversation about spirituality, lunarpunk, and solarpunk hosted by Solarpunk Station. Here's an intro to the series. -
January 11, 2023My lunarpunk, solarpunk mushroom story "Myco Macro" is in the just-released issue of Optopia. Hail the fungi! -
January 4, 2023Stories poised to launch, an upcoming workshop, and other news of things that feed me. What boosts your spirit? -
November 3, 2022Join me and like-minded others on Mastodon, an alternative to twitter. For now I'll be in both places. -
September 22, 2022Today is the point of balance during the Earth's circuit around the Sun---the Equinox: a great time to probe the crisis of climate imbalance... -
August 11, 2022You've heard me talking about solarpunk for months! I'm also glowing about lunarpunk . . . or should I say, bioluminescing? I'm included in ... -
August 1, 2022A poetic offering and doodle for Lammas 2022. Inspired by the scene out my window: a bright yellow finch plucking a seed from an echinacea. -
July 29, 2022I had an incredible, potent, magical time of Wonder and Mystery at Witchcamp in mid-July. In no particular order, here are some things I lea... -
June 8, 2022Lots of news about writing and teaching! Forthcoming stories, in-person teaching, and more. Plus, I dance in Whole Time. -
March 20, 2022There's a line between seasons. Perhaps it feels solid as a mountain. Perhaps gossamer as spider silk. Perhaps muddy, sticky, sharp, made tr... -
February 2, 2022Today is Imbolc or Brighid as many in Reclaiming name this cross-quarter day in the Wheel of the year. Halfway between Solstice and Equinox.... -
January 29, 2022I'm very taken with solarpunk, a movement grounded in reality that points us towards justice and a regenerative world. My solarpunk article ... -
January 17, 2022To some, my novel might appear to be contemporary fantasy. Yet those in a spiritual path like mine will recognize The Working as fabulism (m... -
January 2, 2022Like a new pair of shoes, I'm not yet sure how 2022 fits. I've not quite landed, nor have a sense of a change in the zietgeist. I'm not rush... -
December 20, 2021The moon illuminates this longest night as we sail through Solstice. I offer you a pause, a verse. -
November 19, 2021The winds are howling today, grabbing at the oak leaves that still cling to branches. I watched the lunar eclipse this morning through these... -
September 6, 2021We opened to our nonhuman Earth kin and explored ways to feel ourselves part of the We, decentered and connected with kin. -
August 29, 2021I'd planned to write an article about our potent, beautiful We, The Earth workshop. But today, I'm striving for steady amidst swirling and o... -
August 7, 2021In my 2021 Witchcamp workshop we'll connect with Earth/Nature as kin. What does it mean to feel ourselves part of the We that encompasses al... -
June 22, 2021I rescued a firefly this morning, giving it a lift outside from the bathroom floor. What would Summer be without fireflies? To my dismay, cl... -
May 13, 2021The Old Ones pulled a card for you: Knight of Cups. They offer wisdom about reciprocity. -
May 1, 2021A long-overdue post on why I describe myself as a Witch, despite stereotypes and hate. Or perhaps... -
April 16, 2021Yeah, Aries! Since the April new moon, my energy has risen. I wrote 3 stories, penned this blog, co-created a ritual. Lift! -
April 1, 2021It's Spring in the North, and like young plants just poking through the soil, many who have isolated all year are peeking outside. Is it saf... -
March 17, 2021"Your call is important to us. Please hold . . . " What is pertinent right now ahead of the Equinox? What do the cards say? -
January 11, 2021What would be the best use of our writing talents in the coming season? I asked the cards for wisdom to share with my fellow writers. Be... -
January 5, 2021The great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn on Dec 21st, the Solstice, was a threshold to a new era. I co-created and participated in a seri... -
November 17, 2020Can you picture a future with scarce water, scarce green plants, no trees? Small and remote insular communities bound together by necessity?... -
October 20, 2020Consider: the world needs evolutionary change. Not the kind of evolution that's slow and increment. Evolutionary as in revolutionary, transf... -
May 9, 2020How are you holding up during these unprecedented times? Resiliency is so important for our well-being and our work in the world. I'm thrill... -
May 1, 2020The first of May, a time to dance, to weave colorful ribbons about a maypole. A time to celebrate the uplifting, the fertile, the greening. ... -
April 5, 2020A few years back, eight of us wrote this song for trees as part of a ritual to protect them from the ash borer and strengthen the Living Web... -
March 18, 2020Humans, like most beings, thrive when we share intimacy. Yet I'm writing this amidst a pandemic, a time to practice social distancing in or... -
March 8, 2020Rivers, wild rice, the animal kingdom, and other elements of Nature are People. The right of Nature to exist, to regenerate...does not detra... -
February 1, 2020February 1st in the Northern Hemisphere is a time to listen to the stirring of the seeds in the ground. Listen. Deep down. What seeds s... -
December 2, 2019Picture this: you stand in a grove of trees; rocks, moss, and ferns cradle the massive furrowed trunks that rise from wide roots to soar far... -
October 30, 2019The veil is thin and it's time for Witches and various traditions to commune with our ancestors of blood and legacy. Last month at my tradit... -
October 17, 2019How do we address and refer to non-human beings? Relegating trees and canines to the same classification as a metal table, an it: nope, does... -
October 14, 2019Mention Indian and some may think of the 1700 and 1800s. They may think all Indians live on reservations in the plains states. They may thin... -
October 13, 2019A sailboat blocked traffic in busy Times Square for hours in NYC: Extinction Rebellion has arrived in the US. While XR began in the United K... -
February 22, 2019Words might describe me. Witch. Teacher. Activist. Human. But none of those are me. Instead, you'll find me in the space between: the inters... -
November 8, 2018I'm thrilled to join Starhawk once again to offer two weekends of change-making. We'll transform overwhelm (grief, anger...) at the state of... -
October 31, 2018Blessed Samhain to those who mark this holy day. It's the final harvest. The time when life force "dies" to be reborn next season. With news... -
June 23, 2018That Tricky Dark/Light Binary A hair past the (Northern) Summer Solstice, tipping from waxing to waning daylight, a good time to contemplate... -
June 17, 2018Think of a hateful word or phrase. Notice how it feels in your muscles, your jaw, your gut, your heart. Notice how the energy of those words... -
May 19, 2018Perhaps I should be a nature writer. Images, delights, symbols from nature are what I'm called to share with you because it's effortless ... -
May 1, 2018Bring it on up Bring it on out What? Whatever in you has been percolating, hiding, baking, cooking, dormant . . . Spring is the time to rise... -
April 21, 2018Windows on windows Evoke above, below. Sky flows to water. Trees: mirrored columns That draw me deep. And there. There. One bright poking ti... -
March 20, 2018Versal Vernal Equinox 2018 Sinking downward deep Deep into fecund Earth To heal and be healed To immerse in the vital force Still so buried... -
March 8, 2018Quick, which women paved the way for your sacred path? Marija Gimbutas. Rachel Carson. Hmmm. Who would be my third? Archaeologist Marija Gim... -
March 1, 2018After a whirlwind few days, strolling the water's edge at Sandy Hook is just what I need to recharge. Here, a yummy 50 degrees under bright ... -
February 16, 2018April 7-8, 2018 Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Spirit With the art of magic, we deepen our vision and focus our will, empowering ourselves to act... -
February 12, 2018A Workshop with Starhawk & BrightFlame NYC Saturday, Feb 24, 2018 In these troubled times, our bright hopes can easily get buried under ... -
February 1, 2018As I redesigned my website, I wanted to segment the menu into the three aspects of me: Writing, Teaching, Priestessing. Writing? Easy. Let y... -
November 15, 2017One of my favorite people, Starhawk is a dear friend and mentor. She co-founded the Reclaiming Tradition of Witchcraft and is the author or ... -
September 16, 2017Witch school for adults? Yes, there really are witchcamps, our name for Reclaiming Tradition's weeklong intensives. And intense they are! We... -
August 15, 2017I've offered so many workshops and classes over the past few decades and enjoy crafting the perfect experiential, immersive exercises for ea... -
June 20, 2017That is why I write We think in story, we learn in story, we perceive in story. While facts and logic are useful and important, they don’t p... -
June 16, 2017Elements of Magic is Reclaiming Tradition's first core class and a prerequisite for the others. Our classes are experiential and are set wit... -
April 11, 2017Be the Green That Grows Through the Cracks, the Water That Dissolves Rock Water is the strongest solvent. Given time, it dissolves rock. It’... -
March 4, 2017#WriteYourResistance Earlier this week — the start of March — it was above 70 degrees in New York City. After dark, still too hot to wear a ... -
May 3, 2014Today we finished fencing much of the land my partner and I tend in order for the forest and the meadow to regenerate. Though rural, this ar... -
April 30, 2014Fire and water combine to raise mist off the land. Ahhh. I feel the elements so viscerally this Beltane morning. I think about my Craft–my ...
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