Tales, trials, and travails of a former dirtbaggy adventurer doing his best to raise his child to become an Earth-loving heathen princess. Kids and nature sort of thing, with an MG style twist.

Going to Hell in an Easter Basket

Going to Hell in an Easter Basket

by Charles Clayton January 19, 2012 Pagan Parenting

When I was growing up, I always felt a bit sorry for the Jehovah’s Witness kids I went to school with.

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Die, Bambi, Die

Die, Bambi, Die

by Charles Clayton November 1, 2011 Pagan Parenting

The final catalyst for the big, unwanted epiphany was nothing less than that innocence destroyer known as “Little House on the Prairie.”

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A Tale of Two Freebox Towns

A Tale of Two Freebox Towns

by Charles Clayton August 15, 2011 Pagan Parenting

Taos and Telluride have common ground to be sure, but their Freeboxes are very different, and each is a symbolic microcosm of the town itself.

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Far From Home

Far From Home

by Charles Clayton July 18, 2011 Pagan Parenting

It’s summertime and we head out of our high desert homeland toward a variation on a beach-front time-share hotel somewhere on the Atlantic Ocean. This time it’s the Florida panhandle, the “Redneck Riviera,” near the nexus of Alabama, Georgia and the Sunshine State.

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A Primer

A Primer

by Charles Clayton May 26, 2011 Pagan Parenting

At this point in my life, 400 days from turning 40, I’m not a big believer in religion or any unseen world. Except when I’m hanging out with my daughter, a three-year-old ball of golden-haired fire.

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