Essays

Stories:

• My Odyssey, a sort of description of where I've been on my journey.
• The Missionary: A look at what faith can do.
• There are stars on that water. . . A bit on God's Little Lanterns. . .
• The Fortune Teller, the beginning of a story.
• The Crow's Story: a fair trade.
• Falling Down, an experience in which I was happy to feel pain.
• The Death of the Cockroach King, a short story inspired by a friend.
• A Fracture of a Win, a fencing bout I barely pulled out.
• Celeste, meeting a beautiful woman and having lunch.
• A Football Encounter, meeting a girl at a game.
• The Girl on the Street, meeting a girl late at night on my way home.
• Dreaming the Beach: A story by request

Paganism Essays:

• Why I'm Pagan: How I came to this path.
• What I Do: A discussion of the shift I made to become the Priest I am.
• Writing Prayers of Praise for Public Ritual: Five Simple Principles for New Ritualists
• Exploring Usas: A deity I am courting.
• A Multiplicity of Centers: The Center in Ritual
• Dorm Room Druidism: Ways to make your life easier as a college Pagan
• The Garanus Meditaiton: a meditation on the Gatekeeper used by Three Cranes
• ADF Ritual as a Mexican Burrito (and other things you find in your grocery store)
• Opening the Gates: My method as a Solitary
• The Nine Virtues of Hogwash: Virtues derived from The 21 Lessons of Merlyn
• An ADF and OBOD comparison
• A comparison of Rgvedic translations: comparing the Maurer and Doniger translations of RV I.32.
• Norwegian Rune Song, Translated by me.
• A new rune poem, written by me.
• Pope Cockroach the Green: dissection of a name
• A Nature Meditation.
• Universal Light Expo 2004: a review
• The PSA and Ritual.
• A bit on exercise.
• What to do if meditation isn't for you, written but never submitted for the ADF DP
• The Dream: A dream I had on the 03/03/03 and its repercussions.
• The Pagan Safe House: an Experiment in Hospitality.
• A Vision of ADF's Training Programs: Written 2006. Not official, just my thoughts.

Published Essays:

• Nine Central Tenets of Druidic Ritual: written for OL #44
• Reintroducing Solitary Work into Your Life: written for OL #29
• On Women Warriors, and finding them in strange places
• Placing the Home Shrine: putting the things that matter at the center of your life.
• The Desire to Devote, a short essay on how to keep your devotions rolling.
• ADF Druidism and Wicca: A comparison.
• A Spirit on the Winds: A piece about the work of Dr. Felicitas Goodman

General Essays:

• Disorders: personal experiences.
• Cards, about who I might just be.
• Gaulish Personal Name Elements: a table designed to help people put together personal names in Gaulish.
• Letter to President Kirwin of OSU about Students For Freethought.
• Basic theories on human interaction.
• Freaky Porno Guy, and the craziness of going downtown.
• A History of the Necronomicon, by HP Lovecraft. No, I didn't write it, but I did copy it by hand so you could read it! See an amusing companion piece (also not by me) here: The Doom that Came to Chelsea!
• A Day in My Life, or what happens when I get a chance to relate my day.
• Shenanigans: When to call them.
• A letter to Dairy Queen, from when I was told that they had discontinued the Butterscotch Dip Cone. Woe!
• Ritualizing to the Beat of a Different Ant. Something I cooked up on a whim.