Bits & Pieces

• Your Children are not Your Own is an essay I'm grooming to submit to the UU_World Magazine.
• Everyone needs to know why Santa Claus is a Kachina. If for no other reason, to find out that you are one, too!
• Oddly enough, I've an entry in the AUSTRALIAN SUPPLEMENT FOR THE NATURAL HIGHS FAQ on calamus root.
• An essay on the Willamette Valley and old growth forests.
• Someone asked, on the cuups list, what the significance of magnolias might be, and I answered tongue in cheek...
• I got so mad when I read the parent article to this bit, where a men's group was railing against the legal system because it wouldn't deny custody to a woman just because she practiced Santaria, and performed animal sacrifice. So I wrote them a counterpoint. I was pleasantly surprised when they attached my note to the page.

Here are some recipes:

• This is a vicious jamaican-style mango chutney.