What is Lorem Ipsum?
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived .

Articles and Reviews

All of these articles have been published elsewhere as well; original publishing information is given at the end of each article. You may notice that some articles are from ongoing projects. For example, I'm a regular reviewer for Wyntergreene, a local Neo-Pagan journal, and have been a regular contributor to PaganUniverse, an information site on Wicca. The Bookshelf was a regular feature on magical systems in literature that I wrote for WynterGreene's ancestor journal, Montreal's Magickal Circle, for one full year. Some of these articles also feature a direct link to the web site that originally published them, so you can see how they originally appeared.

As always, please exercise courtesy and remember that all these words are owned by me. That means stealing them is against the law. Quoting from these articles and/pr reviews is permissable so long as full attribution is made. If you wish to reprint them, please contact me.


Articles


Academia and Miscellaneous Opinion Pieces

"Cultivated Men and Women": The Robbins Report and the Thatcher Response (excerpt from Reconstructing the Past in the Academic Novel: The Concept of Nostalgia in Thatcher Britain)

The Alien Has Landed: Disney Gives the Nod to SF

The World's First Gold: A Review of The Varna Exhibit



Literary Commentary

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

In the Land of Winter by Richard Grant

Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce

A College of Magicks by Caroline Stevermer

Lammas Night by Katharine Kurtz

The Owl Service by Alan Garner

Guardian of the Balance by Irene Radford

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley



Spirituality

The Initiation Debate

Solitary Worship versus Coven Worship: What's Right for You?

Fire in the Head, Fire in the Heart, Fire in the Belly

Origins of Ostara

Pardon Me, Your Pentacle is Showing

Choosing a Magical Name

Coming Out of the Broom Closet

On Pentacles and Other Religious Symbols

Who Were the Celts? - Celtic Christianity Part One

Celtic Spirituality: Features of Celtic Christianity



Why do we use it?
It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English.

Where does it come from?
Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words,

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words
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