One after another, like broomsticks in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, an army of sad faced wooden masks advanced.

My grandfather, Carl Giorgio, lost his mother shortly after his birth. In 1906 baby-formula in a bottle did not exist so finding a wet nu...

I was heading down to DC to help my parents, now in their 90s. I knew it was going to be an intense trip. Memory loss and medical cond...

Prayer Pods at the Sacred Tree - by Nancy D'Antonio The Prayer Pods, created from un-fired clay, arrived just in time for January New M...

Sacred Prayer Trees can be found in Indigenous cultures around the world. There is a deeply held belief that all things have spirits, an...

In 2016 and 2017 I participated in the Spotted Horse Sundance Ceremony on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation near Allen, South Dakota.

One of my favorite ceremonies is the Native American Sweat Lodge. It consists of building a small domed structure out of sapling trees t...