Welcome to Pagan Pages Blog Hop in September!

Welcome bloggers! We've got a bunch to share with you this month! A great guest post from Vickie over at Aoibheal's Lair, and a new Brilliant Blogger to feature! But first a quick couple of announcements. 

First off, the guidelines for PPBH have been updated and I'd like everyone to read over the new rules:

• First and foremost, Pagan Pages Blog Hop is a family friendly forum.  Please be mindful to what your link ups include. PPBH has final discretion as to what is deemed family friendly, and reserves the right to moderate or remove any link ups deemed not family friendly. 
• Link up images should not include images containing nudity, adult content or otherwise inappropriate material. Link ups that display inappropriate images will be edited for content or removed entirely by the PPBH crew who reserve the right to do so.
• Any links that direct readers to blogs that include inappropriate material must include the term 'Adult Content' in their link description as well as employ an 'Adult Content' warning on their blog. Any blog found to have this type of material and does not employ the 'Adult Content' warning will be removed from PPBH. 
• Foul language will not be tolerated in link descriptions.  Link ups that use foul language in their description will be edited for content or removed entirely by the PPBH crew who reserve the right to do so.

To review all of the rules of PPBH you can visit  the 'Guidelines' tab to review posting and "Brilliant Blogger" guidelines. What to know more about PPBH? Click on the 'About' tab to read a little more on how the hop works and descriptions of our categories. And please remember to always use post specific links when linking up. The only time you should link up a general link to your blog is in the 'New to PPBH' category.

And guess what! PPBH has been nominated for a couple Blogger Awards! A great big thank you to Serenity Raven over at The Domestic Pagan for nominations for 'One Lovely Blog Award' as well as the 'Very Inspiring Blog Award'!

  

I'm going to forgo the 14 things about myself, since I was also nominated over at my personal blog The Multi-Faceted Experience,  and you can find them all there. And instead of nominating just 22 combined blogs for these awards I'm going to direct you to our Blog Directory, where there are 70+ wonderful blogs for you to check out!

And now for a Brilliant Blogger Award for August!!

Brillant Blogger Award Winner For August:

Blog:The Bad Witch Files

Author: Ehsha

Tell us a little bit about yourself. - I’m a 41 year old Sag, born on the Southside of Chicago and transplanted to “the motherland” where I spent every summer, Alabama, to finish graduate work – I earned a PhD in English (American) Literature (Film) in 2008. Both of my parents were raised in North Bama and moved to Chicago in the 50s as the tail-end of the agrarian exodus. I have my ancestry traced back to Salem, to The Massachusetts Bay Colony, to the Pennsylvania Dutch, and to Native American peoples: the Creek, the Cherokee, and the Delaware Lanape “Praying Indians.”

What drove you to starting your own blog? - I’d had a bizarre few months, full of experiences with three of the “worst Witches” I’d ever known. My goal was to record the experience and to warn others off of such pitfalls. I never got to it because it struck me as poor taste to expose the true truth about my neighbor, a Pagan here in the Deep South. At any rate, I have found nearly two years worth of more interesting topi. Almost immediately, I found that blogging was a fine way to explore the deeper implications of our religious choices. This is what has kept me going for 145 posts.

What is it that you like to blog most about? - Pagan theologies, Pagan hermenutics, and Pagan ethics. Not that I claim to have the be-all-end-all answers of any of these things, of course. I like to challenge the status quo and to encourage my readers to think while they watch me struggle with my own uncomfortable moments of introspection.

Your thoughts on PPBH? - It took me a hot minute to get up to speed but it’s been very worthwhile; I have been introduced to some mighty fine bloggers and have made a good friend or two in the bargain.

Anything else you'd like to add? - I’ve had a wild flu this week and have gotten behind on a few things. Given my ticker, even the slightest whatsit can pull my expiration date closer than I’d like, and even the mildest OTC makes me swing like a pendulum affirming the most positive reply. So, I have only done the things which cannot be put off until tomorrow. Placing friendships and family first, like a good Heathen, I have spent time at local fiction/poetry readings, at “light” social gatherings, and welcoming The Bad Husband back to The States (yes, again); even at that, I have worn myself out quicker than usual. This has lead to two seasons of Downton Abbey, ancestry.com, and baked figs with Saigon cinnamon and butter. Not a bad lot, eh?

Once I’ve recovered entirely, I will get to my R post for the PBP, the end of my comparative religions reply to TRLT, and a commentary on an odd message I received concerning “ego” and complacency.

And, I have some new plans for The Files in the works – at least I think I do.