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Growing up I knew that I wasn't Christian, but living in a small dairy-farming community "not-being-Christian" is not something anyone could be. Not everyone in our community went to church (the cows still need milking and can't wait for God), including my family. Dad preferred to stay at home and work in the garage, listening to the Christian radio stations, while Mom took us to a Lutheran Church. We always protested and eventually my mom gave up trying. The last time I attended church services regularly was when I was 10 years old. Later on, when I was in high school, my parents did start attending a Nazarene Church but none of us children were asked to go. I have not attended church other than for weddings, funerals, and going occasionally because it meant something to a friend to attend.

I always knew that church was not for me. I had questions that no one could answer completely. I was tired of answers such as "because it's in the Bible" or "God says so." To me, those answers were scapegoats. A person can't answer with facts and logic and simply blame or credit God or the Bible for things. I wanted factual answers and I wasn't getting them. So many things did not make sense. True, the stories in the Bible are as entertaining as Fairy Tales, but to they were just tha...tales. The things that occurred in the Bible just weren't possible if you take the stories at face value. I believe that they were exaggerated tales meant to show a moral, nothing more than Aesop's Fables. For many years I just assumed that I was "anti-religious" meaning that I did not have a religion because the only religions I knew of were Abrahamic or monotheistic religions: Judaism, Mormon, Christian, Catholic, Muslim. And I was none of these.

I was interested in Celtic lore, fairies, Greek Mythology (I memorized the Greek Alphabet just because I could) and Norse Mythology. I never knew that religions for these areas were actually practiced today. I knew that there were pagans in the past, I knew of Celtics and Druidism and of course I was always fascinated with the supernatural realm and the Salem Witch Trials. Magic to me was something that was done on a stage by people like David Copperfield.

When I was 18 my parents semi-retired to New Mexico and I went with them. I ended up in a much larger city and going to college there. In college I learned that there were practicing pagans. My best friend (and later college roommate) was pagan, she combined a lot of elements but mainly was into

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