Category Archives: About Me

Taking A Break

Posted on January 25, 2014 by The Grumpy Druid

Some of you might have noticed that I missed yesterday’s deadline for the Pagan Blog Project. Sadly, yesterday was not the last time it’ll happen. Life got hectic and I needed to choose between the blog and my work.   … Continue reading →

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Belief

Posted on January 17, 2014 by The Grumpy Druid

Believe it or not, I consider myself a sceptic. I know that might sound like an impressive bit of self-denial to some people, but it’s true. I find faith difficult, a stretch which often lies beyond my abilities. When people … Continue reading →

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Again

Posted on January 3, 2014 by The Grumpy Druid

For those of you following this blog in 2013, I welcome you back for a new batch of random discussions. Last year’s offerings ran the gamut; from grumpy rants to genuine expressions of wonder and from insightful (or at least … Continue reading →

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Youth

Posted on December 6, 2013 by The Grumpy Druid

Youth is wasted on the young, they say. We love to look back on our younger selves (and more so at youths we know) with some amazing feats of self-deception. We look at people with their whole lives ahead of … Continue reading →

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Worlds Within

Posted on November 8, 2013 by The Grumpy Druid

I suppose my first ‘real’ pagan meditation was twelve years ago. I decided to visualise a grove, one of two that I alternated between as my mood shifted. I can’t say which of the two it was, nor do I … Continue reading →

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The Unknowable

Posted on October 18, 2013 by The Grumpy Druid

As I am sure I have mentioned before, I am a druid and a member of the OBOD. More than this, I am a pantheist and a kind-of-polytheist. To any rational atheist, I suppose this makes me intellectually-suspect on some … Continue reading →

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Sex, Stereotypes and Social Constructs

Posted on September 21, 2013 by The Grumpy Druid

If I had to name one thing that concerns me about modern paganism, it’s gender-roles… This is a little bit of a difficult one for me, since it’s often at the root of certain types of pagan thinking. I recognise … Continue reading →

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Relevance

Posted on September 6, 2013 by The Grumpy Druid

I stared at the letter ‘R’ for quite a while, at the possible prompts for a while, then sat and considered the letter. There are some very good ‘R’ words, but not all of them are relevant, I decided. After … Continue reading →

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Pagan Parenting

Posted on August 9, 2013 by The Grumpy Druid

Parenting is hard. Parenting as a minority is even harder, especially when your particular brand of ‘other’ is philosophical. Oh, you can hide what you are (if you really want to) and nobody will know any different, but there’s a … Continue reading →

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Nature and the burden of proof

Posted on July 12, 2013 by The Grumpy Druid

A while back, I had the misfortune to get into an argument with an atheist about something called the ‘burden of proof’ and I think we both left thinking far less of the other. His basic argument was that I … Continue reading →

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