My Writing
I love to write but find it difficult to simply make time. In recent months, the formation of the Dixon Writers Group, which meets at my house, has been such a blessing, creating a time each week where I have space to write.
Being able to write is also a useful skill when I help create a webpage as I can usually write some good copy for my clients and make the text on their sites more interesting and readable.
I am in the process of writing some books: "Lessons from Celtic Times" and "The Third Brigid" as well a some books in collaboration with my husband, E.S. Gallegos.
I also write articles for magazines. You can view some of my writings here. I will shortly place some of the printed articles online. The photos in these articles are also my work.
Of Micaceous Clay...
Indian Art.doc
Lessons from Celtic Times
This book is a long time coming! below is an extract from it:
Sheila-na-Gig: The Last Goddess
Sheila-na-Gigs are old carvings of women displaying their genitals. They are to be found over the doors and windows of churches and castles in Ireland, Celtic Britain and Brittany. It is thought that "gig" comes from the Gaelic word "giog" meaning limb or branch. They are highly stylized images and often are interpreted as being ferocious or threatening.
"Some people think they were placed there as a warning against the evils of sexuality by the Romanized Christian monks who began to take over the indigenous Celtic church between the 7th and 10th centuries. I prefer to think that they were the last stand of Celtic spirituality, where it was recognized that the entrance to Sacred Space was not to be taken lightly, that Sacred Space engendered both life and death and ultimately, transformation. The Sheila may have had a similar purpose to the Morrigan, the Great Queen, who swooped on the Battle field in the form of a crow, to retrieve the souls of the dead, and who reminded all who went to battle that in death one gives birth to self. In the moment of death there is only you and the Universe. All else falls away. It can be the truest moment of life, the final moment of I am before the great engulfing."
The Third Brigid
A novel set in Ireland of the 12th Century, Extract coming soon.