by Tanya Rucosky Noakes
There is something about ducks that makes it hard to not be cheerful, and makes it hard not to smile at the ridiculous out there on orange feet, or inside our hearts.
For it is muddy, and there are suspicious green ‘muds’ every where on our porch. I have gone out several times with my broom in hand and rage in my heart to be beaten back by innocent beady eyes and a matter of fact wagging of tails which say, “What’s the quacking problem? The mud? The …

By Tanya Noakes
Community is powerful, we hear it all the time, but living it, well, what does that really mean? Especially in a community like our own, spread across a planet? We say in our words we are here to support each other, but living so far from each other, that often can only be words. Words are good, but what if we could harness the spaces that challenge our community to make something powerful out of it?
We have at our fingertips here an amazing resource of people spread across …

by Tanya Rucosky Noakes

When the public thinks about witches, Ben Gruagah, one of Wicca’s emerging scholars wouldn’t leap to mind. However, this wholesome looking Canadian is pushing the boundaries of Wiccan philosophy and defining the next generation of Wiccan thought.
TRN: Most people don’t tie Canada and the Midwest too tightly with Paganism. How did you become interested and involved in Paganism to begin with, and Wicca in particular?
I’m the second oldest of four boys. Our parents raised us as Presbyterians but we pretty much stopped going to church when I …