Litha – Summer Solstice – Aim High
June 20 is the Summer Solstice, known in the Celtic Tradition as “Litha.” In the Northern Hemisphere this is the […]
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Beltane – Love and Life – A Celebration
Beltane – A Celebration of Life and Love Traditionally Celebrated May 1st There are only two seasons in the Celtic […]
Time in a Bottle
Time in a Bottle 1969 I hate the mother-fucking bastard. I wish he would just die and go away. Donna, please. You know I don’t like to hear that kind of talk. I don’t give a good goddamn. I hate the mother-fucker and want him out of my life. Who? Who do you hate? DAD! […]
Games We Play
Games We Play January 1968 It doesn’t matter who they are, as long as they trip. The living room is full, seven or eight crowded on the curving couch, another five on the floor; me curled up in the big chair and Yvonne in the matching smaller armchair. Muzzie’s at work and dad’s out on […]
Helms Bakery Truck
Helms Bakery Truck Christmas Vacation 1967 Suggested listening: With a Little Help from My Friends – single, by The Beatles One thing’s for sure, the munchies are hell; especially for me ‘cause I hate to eat anything. Food makes my stomach ache and feel all stuffy and puffy. But I always make an exception for […]
Jim Morrison 50-Years After The End
Dance in the Graveyards – Jim Morrison – 50 Years After the End I first met The Lizard King between […]
Beltane – Love and Life
Beltane – A Celebration of Life and Love Traditionally Celebrated May 1st There are only two seasons in the Celtic Tradition: Summer and winter. Beltane is the first day of summer. It is traditionally celebrated from sunset April 30 until sunset May 1. It is also known as May Day. The most well known of […]
Smoke – Bonni Goldberg
Once again smoke hung thick in the library’s rafters. Words appeared. At least this time the vapors formed words. The first time it was shapes, and yesterday it was numbers. Both were incomprehensible. Shira knew what the words meant individually. Now all she had to do was make out the larger meaning, their message. Was it an instruction or a warning? Would she have to convince anyone else to join her? How much time would she have? Time. Maybe the numbers were a time. Now that Shira thought more about it, the shapes were similar to road signs: stop, yield, one way. She had thought, map for shapes and a code for the numbers. Because those were confusing to her. She’d focused on what she wasn’t good at instead of what she already knew. That had to be it; to save her brother and the world she had accidentally created, Shira had to use what she already understood. She gazed up again. The words dissipated like a slow motion explosion, transforming into a whisper: don’t be late. She’d never been late in her life. Bonni’s website
Thank the Furies
Thank the Furies It’s a curious statement, let alone the title for a blog. My life has taken many twists […]
The Champion
by Sonja Griffing I stood on the 50-yard line with two rings in my hand. One was plain and ugly. Nicked and worn. Perfectly molded. Cold to touch. The other ornate and brilliant. Sparkling in the sun. Brand new. Burning my skin. They both wouldn’t fit. I weighed them in my palm and made a […]
Refrain
by Sonja Griffing “Be nice or leave.” Mother’s word echoed in the kitchen. Father dropped his fork and disappeared. “Be nice or leave.” I mouthed the words as Brother kicked the wall and faded away. “Be nice or leave,” she said to me. So, I went. “Be nice and leave,” I told her. Then, she […]
Be Nice or Leave
“Be nice or leave,” Lynne yells at me. “I didn’t invite you here so you could attack me for crap we did to each other in junior high.”“Billy wasn’t crap,” I say. “He was the love of my life.”“Junior high,” Lynne repeats. “We were twelve.”Lynne doesn’t know about my condition. I don’t know how to […]
The Sound of Silence – Disturbed Visions of Reality
I have been struggling with an essay: “Six Ways the Sixties Changed the World.” It wasn’t until I saw Disturbed’s […]
Leading Ritual
I have had many years of experience participating in and leading rituals; in the Celtic Tradition, with Native-Americans, and within an occult lodge. Ritual is meant to be a spontaneous celebration of the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. An honoring of the Earth Mother.The difference between earth-based spirituality, such as the Celtic Tradition, and […]
Barking Mad
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About Donna Conrad
The Last Magdalene Book One of The Magdalene Chronicles Release Date: April 9, 2024 After two thousand years, the story told from a male perspective is now voiced by the woman behind the legend – Miriam the Magdalene Filled with passion and yearning, The Last Magdalene brings to life the people and events that […]
Separation Anxiety
They shared the same mother and father, and were loved by their many sisters and brothers. They wore matching clothes and tiny pink shoes with purple laces. The elder loved Hello Kitty, the younger was terrified of cats, even big-eyed cartoon cats.The younger cried the first time their mother stuffed her foot in the shoe. […]
Knights in White Satin
“Where’re we headed?” she asked.“Nowhere and everywhere.” He answered and laughed when she slapped his shoulder.She loved his laugh and slapped him again just to hear it.The steady drizzle painted the road with jagged streaks of red and yellow, green, and white. The last signal turned and she pressed her booted feet against the chrome […]