I. Love. This. Song. It’s more like spoken-word poetry with a bit of a soundtrack in the background, but it’s so beautiful, so heartwrenching, so awesome. I love the undercurrent of both sorrow and lack of regret: There are rules I had to break, There’s mistakes that I made, But I made them my way! [...]

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I’ve been working at the Domestic Violence Clinic for about six months, now. I help people complete the paperwork necessary to get a temporary restraining order (and, in some cases, a forced move-out order) against their abusers. I sit in the back of the court, interviewing and typing. I rarely know whether or not the [...]

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I once read (and have since forgotten where or from who—please feel free to correct this quotation or provide a citation if you have one), that Creating is not something that gods do, it is something that they are. Elsewhere, in reading feminist interpretations of the bible (specifically, the time in Eden), I discovered a [...]

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The Charge of the Goddess (a popular pagan prayer/poem written in the form of the goddess telling her people how to worship her) contains the following line: behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals There is much to love in the Charge, which reads as an affirmation of life and love and [...]

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I think I’m going to observe lent this year. I remember hating Lent as a kid: I was forced to “give up” something I liked for reasons not well explained to me. That is, until I did the math and discovered that Sundays don’t count in Lent and Sundays are never days of fasting, so [...]

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A friend and I were talking recently about her belief system (Judaism), about which I know a fair amount, but not many of the intricacies. One thing she mentioned, that was drilled into her during shul (Jewish Sunday school for those who, like me, didn’t know), was that animals should be fed before humans. She [...]

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