
Ode to Ægir, God of the Seas
I read somewhere–I can’t recall where–that someone prayed to Ægir (pronounced eye-year), a sea god-giant, for good travels. The logic was that the Norse people traveled almost everywhere by water and said a prayer to Æegir before they left, so by extension he prayed to Ægir whenever he went traveling–by boat, car or plane. This logic...

Images of Sweden and Norway, Part 2
I hope everyone had a wonderful Samhain! TheScott and I didn’t do anything this year–we barely got back before the day was upon us! But I do have the a few more photos from our trip to show. GG asked for a map so you could see where we were. I’ll start with that. I...

Images of Sweden and Norway
Sorry for the late post; I’m still in post-jet-lag-zombie phase. In honor of my ability to barely construct a coherent sentence, I’m going to give you what you probably really want anyway…PICTURES! Is Scandinavia the most beautiful place on Earth? Quite possibly, folks. Quite possibly. and ...

Jax in the Land of her Ancestors
I’m going to Scandinavia!!! After all the chaos of this summer, TheScott and I decided to do something awesome. We plan to put in the paperwork to try adopting again sometime in 2014, so we decided to make it a big trip, the kind we hopefully won’t be able to take for a long time....