If my life wasn’t interesting, it would simply be true, and that’s unacceptable.

I’m Lauren: a 40-something tree-hugging dirt-worshiper living in the Blackland Prairie region of Texas.

I’m a full time Go-To-Market Ops professional, a full time stepmom, chronically ill/disabled, and an ordained clergyperson through ADF (Arn Draoicht Fein – A Druid Fellowship), where I have served in various roles since 2011. Currently I am building a druid community here in the NTX/OK region called Mesquite Rose Protogrove, where we are exploring what place-based-paganism looks like in our modern time and what it means to be the Druid of This Place.

I’ve played Dungeons and Dragons since 1997, currently DMing for the Slack of Many Things – you’ll likely hear about them a bit. I’ve played World of Warcraft since 2004, still play Retail on Wyrmrest Accord, but I’m only a roleplayer anymore. I’ll be eagerly playing WoW Forever, but not to get the band back together, to tell new stories in the Azeroth I fell in love with. I cook a lot, read queer romance like it’s going out of style, and am generally the queer, feminist, disabled, pagan, overly domestic auntie your mother warned you about.

With strong ties to weather, sovereignty, and the grounded liminality of a watershed, my life in the prairies is full of wonder, discovery, and the kind of wisdom that comes from listening – as I believe that speaking is a privilege we earn through first listening deeply. This wild and wonderful life here in North Texas also includes four cats, three stepchildren, two jobs, and a beloved husband who is probably not in a pear tree. I have a weakness for bread and for fountain pens and in a previous life was almost definitely a hobbit.

Come and sit a spell, there’s always tea at the ready (hot or iced, as is your wont).