Author Archives: Maewyn

About Maewyn

Book person. Inhibited free spirit. "I am large; I contain multitudes" in size 20 jeans. Passionately curious. Humorless feminist; lover of puns and bad jokes. Blue Star Wiccan. Intensely Aquarian except when neurotically Virgo. Introvert. Michigander in economic exile. Fiercely committed to spiritual growth through self-knowledge. Tends to the hedonist. Self-contradictions a specialty. Definitely not a writer.

me and Aphrodite, part 2

By | October 10, 2011

This post is subtitled “When you screw up in public, you have to make it right in public, too.” First of all, I shouldn’t have used wording implying that I’m a priestess of Aphrodite. I’m not, and I doubt I ever will be. It just ain’t in me. After 10+ years as a Pagan, I [...]

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me and Aphrodite, part 1

By | October 9, 2011

So the line that kicked me into gear here was from Deborah Lipp’s most recent blog post about her cats and the strong relationship she has with them; she said that one “gave love like a Priestess of Ishtar.” (I am sure I heard that line in a different way than she meant it, and [...]

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fitting the puzzle pieces together

By | October 1, 2011

So now that I’ve broken the ice, I’ll noodle a bit about the series I’d like to post. (I am likely to be very vague about any kind of posting schedule because I haven’t had a regular block of time in which I can expect to write posts. My daughter is, thankfully, sleeping in her [...]

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returned, transformed

By | October 1, 2011

After a year and a half or so, I’m back. There’s been something ping-ponging around in my brain-meats and I’d like to launch a series of posts here to help me figure it out. So let me catch you up on the changes that happened in that time. First, I went and had a baby! [...]

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living in a house out in the woods

By | May 27, 2010

Living out here is an amazing opportunity to dance in the cycles of Nature — with all that represents. The beautiful: Watching the trees burst into leaf during a particularly wet week in early May. Watching the river rise with the rain and fall with the heat (it’s been in the upper 80s this week). [...]

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