Panmankey.com

I blog a lot, but for some odd reason I do almost all of it on facebook.  That's pretty stupid since I have this website, so I'm going to start blogging here again, and then posting that on facebook.  Makes more sense, and then I haven't abandoned old panmankey.com

Lots of changes in the past couple of months.  For those of you who don't read my facebook stuff, my wife and I are moving to California in February.  That's pretty big news.  We'll be living in Northern California, probably Palo Alto-give or take a few miles.  

Due to Pantheacon I do know some Pagans out West, so I've got a small network of people who know me out there, but I truly have no idea what to expect.  I'm hopeful that there will still be plenty of opportunities to talk in public and get out of the house (or apartment), but I don't know for sure.  I'm hoping that there's some sort of big outdoor festival within six hours of us.  One of the hardest parts about moving is leaving behind our time at Starwood and Brushwood.  (Not that we won't ever be back or anything, I'm sure we'll visit once every few years, but camping cross country while getting there on a plane is a logistical nightmare.)  

Finding a new group to practice with will be another challenge too.  I'm hoping we can find a BTW group that fits us, but I've been involved with about every kind of Paganism imaginable in North America the past few years, most of it works for us.  

Over the last ten years I've become a pretty effective Pagan chameleon.  I can slip in and out of different groups with relative ease, communities too.  When you do as many festivals as I do it's easy to be impressed by almost every community you visit, when you are only there for three or four days you never see the warts, or the Witch Wars.  Always a positive.  In my own neck of the woods I've managed to avoid being in negative situations pretty well the last eight or nine years.  Chalk it up to maturity, or a smaller ego, or a bigger passion for football than what people think of me.

So, changes are afoot.  We'll be in our new home state February 7th, just early enough to miss as good chunk of Michigan winter!