by Lisa Hario | Sep 16, 2020 | Paganism, Reviews
The Morrigan:Celtic Goddess of Magick and Might by Courtney Weber 2019 Weiser Books Using historical sources and the experiences of modern devotees, author Courtney Weber explores different aspect of the Morrigan in turn. Goddess of sovereignty, prophecy, and...
by Lisa Hario | Sep 11, 2020 | Journey to Paganism, Paganism
Welcome to the second in my year long series of beginner Pagan topics. You can read the first entry in the series here. Communication between a person and a deity has been dubbed the “God phone” within neo-pagan circles today. Don’t take this literally. ...
by Lisa Hario | Sep 7, 2020 | Announcements
Happy Labor day! Posting will be light this month. The wee dictator will be entering a new phase of his dictatorial regime, requiring the entire family to get up earlier. Next month I will be going to the virtual Loft Wordplay and pitching to some agents. Any positive...
by Lisa Hario | Sep 4, 2020 | Thoughts
Teachers are increasingly being asked to pick up the slack of school funding—both in supplying their own classrooms, while being offered salaries that buy less and less. This shifting of responsibility is treating teaching less like a profession, and more like a...
by Lisa Hario | Sep 2, 2020 | Reviews
Circe by Madeline Miller 2018 The book Circe is the story of the witch from the Odyssey brought to vivid life. The daughter of Helios the sun god and the nymph Perse, Circe discovers she has a strange power unlike those of other gods. She is able to unlock...
by Lisa Hario | Aug 28, 2020 | Journey to Paganism, Paganism
This is the first I in a year long series of beginner Pagan topics. Today I will explore first steps of reaching out to a deity. For any feedback or ideas for future topics, please feel free to either comment below or contact me. Back in my wee Pagan days the popular...
by Lisa Hario | Aug 24, 2020 | Thoughts, Writing Life
I haven’t been sure how much I wanted to open up about my current project and pitfalls I have fallen into. It requires me being honest about missteps I have taken, or at the very least explaining my thinking and how it has evolved. This is the background to the...
by Lisa Hario | Aug 19, 2020 | Paganism, Reviews
Magic for the Resistance by Michael M. Hughes 2018 Llewellyn Books Confession time: I did not buy my copy at my favorite witchy store. I bought it at Half Price Books. It was the one good book on the shelf smashed between Conway and Cunningham. ...
by Lisa Hario | Aug 17, 2020 | Fiction
This week I decided to share a scene from my WIP. The main character, Maria, is a teenager in the process of being adopted by the Aliannon family, who are an elder race that live for centuries. To prepare she must spend time alone at the ancestor shrine to present...
by Lisa Hario | Aug 14, 2020 | Thoughts
Episode 7 of second season of In The Dark focused on the trials of Curtis Flowers. There are a lot of threads that could be teased apart in the entire Curtis Flowers story, but when interviewing the white jurors who had convicted Flowers, there was one...
