How We Begin is Not How We End
Feature Image: Hollow Bones by Katrina Haffner
As I’m down on all fours, balanced on one hand and one knee with my opposite leg suspended...
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...
Tales of the Sinister, Liminal Mushroom
by Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman
“The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do.”
—T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead
In recent years, mushrooms have appeared...
The World is a Fairy Ring
Feature Image: Fairy Resting on a Mushroom (1860), by Thomas HeatherleyThe house we lived in when I was a child had a storage cupboard...
Can Mushrooms Save the Planet?
Renowned mycologist Paul Stamets is, simply put, mad about mushrooms. From tame little grocery-store white buttons to flamboyant foraged chanterelles, there isn’t much that...
The Charismatic Mushroom
My husband and I live in a 125-year-old farmhouse where the land has been producing one major crop these days: Fungus. It is thriving....
Leafy Virtue
Over a decade ago, in light of many, many years of harassment, I underwent a dramatic transformation. Prior to this point, I was considered...
Manifest Your Personal Renaissance: A Powerful New Year Spell
Photography: Amanda Valentine
Makeup: Jessica Saint
Louis Armstrong’s soulful voice vibrates through the barge-board wood of my old 1898 Creole cottage as he sings “What a...
Silent No More: Rediscovering Black Presence in the Renaissance
Stephanie Levi-John as Lina from Starz’s The Spanish Princess.
Courtesy of Starz
Why are you going to the Renaissance Faire?” I’ve lost count of how many...
When Women Painted the Renaissance
They had names like Sofonisba and Lavinia and most of all Artemisia. They were brilliant and gifted and (sometimes)
ferocious—because they had to be, sure,...