Diwrnach is Dead
Diwrnarch is dead. The great blue slabs of his limbs lie spread-eagled across his table. His fists are heavy clenched stones. His corpse is headless. His head lies in a bloody pool on the…
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Imperiling Empowerment: An Analysis of “Let It Go” in Disney’s “Frozen”
Author's Note: This post contains spoilers. Go watch "Frozen" before you read it. Disney's film "Frozen" has received rave reviews, and the song “Let It Go” is one of…
Letters from Bidbid
When Colleen first opened her son’s latest letter, she had been ecstatic. It had been six months since he’d been writing from his outpost in Oman. Most of them came from Bidbid. It surprised…
Living Boldly: What Do I Do with the Time that Is Given to Me?
Standing on the edge of a rock, I gazed at the waterfall, letting the roar of the water sink into my heart. The scent of pine mingled with the sunscreen I had liberally applied to…
Once Upon an End: A Short Story of Truth and Tale-Telling
The End. He had reached the End of the world… and even come back from it. There he had expected to find monsters with torturous tentacles splayed on cliffs, or perhaps bleak beasts of shadow…
The Price of a Soul: Musings on the Moral Beauty of "Les Miserables"
I have fond memories of seeing Les Miserables in its San Francisco stage production many years ago. It was therefore with great disappointment—and with some questioning of my judgment in earlier years—that several months ago I…
A Common Celtic Thread: A Book Review of "Brighid's Mantle"
Can a Pagan and Christian ever find common ground? I am very happy to say that it appears so! In this book two friends from different traditions, but connected by a common Celtic…
Rehabilitating the Romantic Roundhead
I have an axe to grind - or more specifically, I have a 36" munitions quality Birmingham steel cavalry backsword. This "Poldark " thing is starting to really irritate me. The scarred, brooding,…
Tolkien and Lewis: The Last Sane Men Standing and Their Understanding of Fantasy
“And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.” There is good fantasy and bad fantasy. Anyone who has watched fantasy movies or read fantasy…
Walking the Green Path: An Herbalist Discovers Her Calling in Assisi
I never set out to be an herbalist. As a graduate student I was offered a scholarship to study art history in Rome. My plan was to explore Neoplatonism as it was expressed in Renaissance…