Recipes From the Hearth
Baking No-Knead Bread for Your Offerings Is a Practice in Ritual
What magically mundane practices can you maintain in the complicated web of your life?
Samantha Borek
Samantha Borek is a writer at the intersection of pop culture and politics. She is also a folk practitioner in Slavic and Irish traditions. She is a graduate of Pratt Institute's BFA program in creative writing.
Oracle From Brigid
On Mother's Day, Brigid Asks Us to Consider the Caregivers in Our Lives
On mothers, writing, and not saying "yes" to everything.
Ireland
Ar Scáth a Chéile a Mhaireann na Daoine
In the shadow of each other, people live.
Oracle From Brigid
Brigid Warns Us Against Hopelessness in Trying Times
Choose to hope. Brigid is beckoning for you to find a project to be involved in.
Pop Culture
Bad Bunny Half-Time Show Should Make White People Reckon With Their Lost Roots
I am writing to you all as Béarla, English, because that was the language which was violently given to us.
Imbolc
Imbolc Arrives Just When We Need It To
Remember: Leánfaidh an t-earrach an oighear. The spring will melt the ICE.
Pop Culture
"The Two Towers" Asks Us to Relate to Each Other to Meet What's Ahead
Saruman and Sauron don’t want you to call for Gondor’s aid because if you don’t they can run roughshod over us all.
Brigid
Tragedy Abounds. Brigid Asks Us to Become Visionaries in 2026.
As the world plunges into chaos and aggression, we will need visionaries like Brigid to help lead us to liberation.
Pop Culture
D&D Is the Greatest Gift I Have Ever Received for My Creativity
Beyond a D&D game, I know there is a story I want to tell about a woman, far away from home, pulled by an invisible string to some personal adventure.
Mental Health
If You're Not Making It Through the Holidays Unscathed, It's OK
Amid the chaos, I am trying to remain tethered to the fulfilling moments of the recent past to keep me going.
Samhain
Samhain Is Only Just Beginning. Trust Yourself in the Darkness.
It’s often easier to trust the light than it is the dark, but trust this time is for you to embrace the liminality of possibility.
Recipes From the Hearth
Samhain Is for Divining. Here Is a Simmer Pot to Set the Stage.
Whether you need to call in the ancestors for insight or make your house smell good for the holidays, this apple-spiced simmer pot will do the job.