by Lisa Hario | Feb 3, 2023 | Thoughts
This post is partly prompted by a documentary I recently watched on Netflix called (Un)well. This isn’t a review of the documentary itself, but it prompted me to write about some things I have been chewing over. I have been getting uneasy with the corporatization of...
by Lisa Hario | Jan 27, 2023 | Thoughts
I have loved the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet. I think it is the best version of the Shakespeare story on film. When I heard that the lead actors were suing the studio over the controversial bedroom scene, I was shocked. After reading the details, I...
by Lisa Hario | Nov 4, 2022 | Journey to Paganism, Paganism, Thoughts
This year for Samhain our ritual was simple. I cooked a meal, and we laid out a plate for the ancestors. To celebrate Halloween, I passed out candy to Trick-or-treaters, then watched Crimson Peak after the Wee Dictator had gone to bed. (Crimson Peak is a good...
by Lisa Hario | Sep 2, 2022 | Paganism, Thoughts
As someone who does read Norse themed fiction, I have been noticing a trend. The podcast Mythology did a 3 part series of the Eddas in Loki’s POV. Joanne M. Harris wrote the Gospel of Loki as part of her four book Runemarks series, which is once again the Eddas...
by Lisa Hario | Aug 19, 2022 | Thoughts
Now that much of the social spending for the pandemic is ending, a casualty is the program that paid school lunches for all kids. Before the pandemic the issue of lunch shaming was being openly discussed. My response to school lunches is simple: Feed the kid. There...
by Lisa Hario | Jul 15, 2022 | Thoughts
The news that Roe vs Wade was overturned was a gut punch. There is rightly plenty of discussion about what the consequences of restricting abortion and the legal mess this puts doctors in. But like many issues around abortion, the focus is so much on abortion itself...
