Karen Kay’s Fairy Whispering
Author and fairy expert Karen Kay has been hearing fairy whispers since she was a young girl—and it started in her grandmother’s wild, rose-filled...
Gossamer Checklist
The idea of gossamer and its sometimes ephemeral, shimmering pleasures seems awfully close to the concept of the “glimmer”—in the sense that author and...
A Familiar’s Second Chance
Image Caption: While real amanitas can be deadly for dogs—like twelve-year-old Chesapeake Bay Retriever, aspiring top model, and good boy Si here—rest assured that...
Mushroom Maidens
i choose a drizzly day in the gloaming to wander through the emerald cathedrals of the Cascadian coastal rainforest. I love days in the...
Between Heaven and Earth: Angels of the Renaissance
Portrayals of angels abound in popular culture. With compelling personalities and forceful wills, angels appear as heroes and villains in books and film and...
The Story of the Cards
Warm sunlight is pouring into my tiny office and a steaming cup of coffee sits on my desk. I’ve just finished anointing my hands...
The Good Housewife’s and Husbandman’s Guide to Faeries
It is my purpose to tell you about our English fairies so that you may appropriately honor them and avoid angering the Fair Folk,...
Rebirth Through Renaissance Magic
The era is named for rebirth—a transformation, a new arrival. A new you? The charms and spells to use in a Renaissance frame of...
Stepping out of the Shade: An Unlikely Fairy’s Perspective
I could feel the cool granite through my heavy layers of skirts as I sat on a fountain’s wide rim, its waters babbling behind...
Into The Night Woods …With Moths, Bats, Mushrooms, Fairies, and Other...
Spring has its freshness and promise, summer gets all that lush light, and winter brings cozy idle hours—but autumn is really the most creative...