Fervent packing is underway for Paganicon 2026, which is being held at the Doubletree in Bloomington, MN, from the 20th to the 22nd! Featuring complimentary shuttle bus service from nearby Minneapolis International AirPort, this year’s conference has the theme of “Branching Out and Reaching Higher.”

On Saturday, March 21, at 3:30 pm CDT in the Ballroom (Southeast), I‘ll be facilitating Slavic Spring Equinox: A Ritual to Awaken and Celebrate Moist Mother Earth. I’m looking forward to teaching folks how to dance the kolo, Serbian style!

Sunday, March 22, would have been my father’s 86th birthday, so I’ll be presenting my 90-minute workshop on Slavic Native Faith in his honor. This workshop begins at 9 a.m. in the Veranda conference room.

Immediately afterwards, I’ll be having a book-signing event in the main hallway, starting at 10:45. I’ll have plenty of copies of Slava! to sell and a limited amount of my self-published devotional prayer book to La Santa Muerte.

And next month, on April 26, I’m pleased to announce I’ll be presenting a 2-hour class on Slavic Witchcraft and Sorcery at Hoof + Horn in Joliet, IL! Learn more and buy your tickets now!

It’s been a strange experience these past few months, maintaining a dual focus on serving as a death midwife for my mother and a proud mother of my “book baby,” whose release into the world is my chief joy. It’s been a long two years of seeing this book come to fruition, from pitched idea to final manuscript to approved design and layout and now publicity and hopefully, sales. I’m glad my mother lived to hold a copy of Slava! in her hands but I am sad my father did not. 

I hope to see many of you at these or other events! Slava Rodu!