For those interested in such details, the content of latest updates, and/or improvements, will be noted on this page.  The most recent date will be noted first.

9 November 2000, 6:28pm: Nedstated the Yule Links page and tweeked a few things in the opening Yule Goat annotation; also tweeked some things on the Winter Solstice 2000 page (I especially wanted to indicate what was included on the Yule Links page as that page isn't getting much traffic yet); added Gaiam interview, Yasmine's Book-Banning link, and my new hastily thrown up Banner page to home page + some misc. tweeking. On Samhain page, updated caption on Iles' "Winter Came Early" painting to indicate that she's given me permission to use it. //////// 8:45pm: Checked all links on Mythic Shopping page (updated about.com and deleted Bulgarian rose of attar site as link has vanished); added a new image of day-dreaming child. No time for more.

5 November 2000, 12:37am: added a link on Canadian haunted houses to Samhain page plus Susanne Iles' Winter Came Early painting; added link on SW celebrations of Day of Dead to Dia de los Muertos page. //////// Later: daytime -- Nedstated the new Winter Solstice page -- Nedstat was having problems so it took more than a day to get the coding, etc. The page got approx. 70-80 visits before I could Nedstat it [11/8/00].

2 November 2000, 2:40pm: tweeked a few things (e.g., misspelled "cocoon" -- had it as "cacoon" -- Sandra caught it) on Winter Solstice page.

1 November 2000, 5:15am: Dianne & I celebrated a wondeful Samhain ritual involving our ancestors, oracles, etc. She left c.2am. I was still too energized to sleep so checked the rest of my winter solstice links -- I thought it might take only an hour but it took 3 -- more links than I'd thought needed to be revised! -- also, needed to add a da Vinci2 page for 2 versions that no longer exist at their original link -- fortunately, I'd saved the large versions. I just uploaded everything. Now to bed. A good day in many ways.

31October 2000, 6:36pm: split the Winter Greetings page as it took forever to load. Now there's the main page with calerndar links, etc -- and the regional links are on a new page linked only to the first (and not on my home page or anywhere else). I still have links from St. Barbara's Day onwards to double check but most have been fine so far, so I went ahead and just launched the page -- Celtic winter starts tomorrow, and I just really wanted to get it online for this!! <big smile>

29 October 2000, 6:43pm: tweeked some things (including links to Dianne's pages) and added a new image (for the ritual links) plus 3 or 4 new links to Samhain/Halloween page. Amazingly, that site is currently getting 300-500 visitors/day.....I don't know how deeply they explore the links, however....e.g., Dianne's page is getting 12 or less/day.

25 October 2000, 12:36am: minor changes on the Sacred Food & Drink page, including changing the Common Themes menu from a long vertical lay-out to a more compact horizontal lay-out; eventually, I'll switch all the Common Themes pages to this lay-out as it takes up much less room & looks better.

19 October 2000, 6:26pm: I somewhat giddily behaved 10/13 as if there'd been no intervening year of eye problems and thus I threw caution to the winds & webbed for probably 8 hours at a stretch. Except for Dianne's 2 pages (see below), I've been extremely careful ever since and done only minimal computer work (with the resulting big e-mail backlog). But today I needed to update M's "Nomad" caption on the new Food & Drink page and tweek its "New" entry on the home page to attract more visitors ("swastika" is doing it for the new symbols page so I figured "mead, ale, beer, wine, and the sex life of dates" would work for this page ::chuckle::). While on the Food page, I decided it was finally time to start dismantling all e-mail links on all my pages except for the home page, so I started with this page and wrote a plea asking people NOT to ask me for homework help. I'm truly drowning in e-mails from all quarters and have to find ways to control the flood or I may go under -- sometimes I'm even tempted to pull the entire website off the internet -- enough's enough!! I mean, when a kid e-mails me to ask me "who the chief god of the Greeks is," it's obvious that kid hasn't done even five minutes of research and just wants a quick & easy answer. Anyway, so far I've dismantled the e-mail link on the Food and Greek pages -- I refer people to the home page if they need to contact me, so I'm not leaving anyone high & dry, but I AM making access slightly less convenient. Another plus is that if I continue to be spammed by organizations using my e-mail address, I can pull it & rotate to a new one -- and I'll only need to update the home page, not more than 160 pages.

16 October 2000: added a second page with necromancy excerpt from Dianne -- both these pages went up quickly - only about 2-3 hours/each.

15 October 2000: created a new page for Dianne's oracular work and linked it to my Halloween page. We had great fun cooking this up!

13 October 2000, 1:17pm: except for 2 misdirected, still-pending about.com links on food, my new Food & Drinks page is now done & officially launched. Since I shifted a section on Wine from the Tree & Plant Lore page to Food & Drinks, I needed to update Trees & Plant Lore too ---- and this meant checking all links; unfortunately, the wonderful Larissa pages from resonate are *again* dead! -- this must be the 4th time in 2 years or less!! I do wish those folks would stop dinking with their URLs!!!!! --- or at least provide forwarding links. If their pages weren't so great, I'd just delete the whole batch -- I mean, their links are broken more times than they're up on my pages, so few visitors are getting the advantage of them anyway! I tracked down a new URL for the Tree page, but now all 3 links are also going to be broken on my Pan Slavic page, so I'll need to update that one too. These snowballing dead links could become a full time job, in addition to all the rest of work I do on this site. Aargggh. I hope the resonate links will at least be stable for a few years now. ////////////////// 7:51pm: an intense day -- I finished the Foods & Drinks page and also really pushed and completed the Symbols, Signs & Runes page (some great swastika and ogham links!). Officially launched both of them on the home page. Next up: I need to update those darn resonate links on the Pan Slavic page; then I want to finish the Music page, finally, and maybe start some of the Etruscan material for Ancient Rome. ////////////////// 10:12pm: I guess I'm still on a roll because I revised the 3 resonate links on the Pan Slavic page and found a handful of others that were either broken or needed updating. Strange ---- I put that page on line almost exactly a year ago, when my eyes were still fine (albeit tired) -- I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed working on that page until I went back to it. Crankiness aside, even the resonate links are really worth the extra trouble (although I hope they stop changing URL's for awhile now!).

12 October 2000, 9:11pm: I started the day annotating more new links and adding images to the Music page; I now only have about 5 links to go. The only "forthcoming" page still left among my COMMON THEMES section was Food & Drink: Sacralty & Lore -- so I decided to create it. I spent much of the day, off & on, gathering images and annotating links. I still have a handful of links left to do and should be able to "officially" launch it tomorrow. Along the way, I discovered that Jim Matterer's link on my Medieval page was broken, so I revised that page as well.

11 October 2000, 9:21pm: before & after my appointment with my retinal specialist (no change, which is good news, though I'd hoped for better -- i.e., a restoration of the eyesight I still had a year ago! <wry smile>), I finished the Samhain page + checked all links and made updates to the Day of the Dead page. I decided to dink with the CropCircleGrains background I'm using for Imbolc & Lammas: I neg-d & greened it, then red-tipped it, which gives a great (IMHO), spooky look to the Samhain page. En route, the greened version delighted me so much that I tried it on my Lammas page -- and it worked so well that I utterly fell in love with all the greens (bear in mind, I did this with my eyes still dilated -- I hope I'm still as intoxicated with it tomorrow!). Samhain, Lammas & Day of Dead are now all uploaded -- and a Samhain update notice is on my home page. What's next? Dunno. I think I may either return to my Common Themes: Music page, and/or to the Common Themes: Symbols page, and finish it (them).

10 October 2000, 3:16pm: just reorganized & finished the Latvian page. At least for now, the 4 Baltic pages are done. Next up: checking all the links on my Halloween page. /////// 8:24pm: ok, checked the Halloween links &, to my amazement, only 2 were broken! -- Okana's and N.S. Gil's to ghosts in the ancient world. It was simple to trace them down & update. I have 5 new links to grok yet -- and also need to check links for Day of the Dead. That'll have to wait til tomorrow.

9 October 2000, 11pm: after finishing today's earlier updates (see directly below), I decided on the spur of the moment to go ahead & create the page I've been wanting to do for weeks now: the Indigenous Circumpolar page. Part of this springs from my dismay over what's going on in the Mid East -- I just want to get as far north as possible! It doesn't have many links yet, and it may be ages before I can continue with it, but the links that are there are first rate ---- and at least it's up now, and with a great map too. Now this bedraggled little firebird needs to rest. Sigh.

9 October 2000, 8:44pm: I finished & reorganized the Lithuanian page today. I still have a few Latvian links to annotate -- and then the Baltics region will be complete, at least for now. ////////// In between working on the Lithuanian annotations, I played with many Firebird bmp's because the image of this bird/dragon came to me in meditation when I asked how to be more centered. I realized that webbing "steals" my own firebird feathers, drastically scattering the light. I need to draw back the light inwardly, as much as possible, given the realities of webbing. To remind me not to get too damn intense (difficult!!!), I put a half dozen firebird bmp's in my wallpaper options. In playing with these images, I also discovered how I could add text to images. This resulted in my figuring out how to create a Mything Links logo! I used a Pegasus image {Redon} -- and I first downloaded this logo on the Lithuanian page, and next on the Home Page. I'm quite pleased with it.

8 October 2000, 12:16pm: was e-mailed a marvelous link to a Rape of Europa site lastnight; updated my Europe home page and added this link -- the first on that page. Also made some minor changes to my little search engine page. ////// 6:51pm: finished annotating all the new links for my Baltics Opening page -- and also decided to use 3 wonderful images by Roberts Diners, a young Latvian artist I discovered on that Latvian artists' listing (it's on my Latvian page). In working on the Baltics links, however, I found 2 new links I had to have on my Estonian page (from Estonia-Wide Web) -- so, sigh, I went back in & added those. Is the Estonian page finished yet? I think so! -- but am not holding my breath.

7 October 2000, 12:17pm: finished & reorganized Estonia page -- then found a few more links of value in my "old" bookmarks, but those will have to wait. The page is fine as it is and there's too much to do on the other Baltic pages! //////// 8:14pm: well, I'm tired of loose ends so I spent the 2 hours it took to really finish the Estonian page the way I wanted it. Now, sigh, I'm pleased -- and just hope I don't find any more links!!

6 October 2000, 5:23pm: yesterday afternoon, I annotated a few more links for the Estonian page and last night I nedstated both Estonia & Latvia. Today I nedstated Lithuania. Also added more ungrokked links to these Baltic pages (I forget which ones -- maybe all 3). Today, after getting an e-mail from a fan of my Weaving page who couldn't get thru to 3 Teutonic links, I did some sleuthing, restored the 3 links, found 4 more broken ones, & fixed those as well. I also found an e-mail address for a retired professor who's taking over Paula Geise's huge site -- contacted her to let her know I'd "rescued" a tiny piece of that site already, in case it helps.

3 October 2000, 8:36pm: it's strange how pages happen. Some weeks ago all I wanted to do was to start, at long last, my ancient Greek section. But several related links on Roman myth "demanded" to be put on *that* long-neglected page, so I did that, and then collected more for that page. One of the Roman links was on ancient Roman instruments, which "forced" me to activate the Common Themes > MUSIC page. I then collected a large number of links for *that* one (plus more links for my Russian Music page, which was obviously allied) -- one of which was on Estonian music, but it was too specialized for a cross-cultural page and therefore "insisted" upon being put on my Baltic page -- which, sigh, was already too long, so I had to split it into a home page plus 3 individual pages for Estonia, Latvia, & Lithuania. I then got yet more links for all now-4 Baltic pages. One of them, for Estonia, was on "Signs as Symbols," which was ok for the Estonian page, but also belonged on my long-planned but still non-existent "Symbols, Signs, & Runes" page. So I created that page late last night against a blue background with the stunning Spiral image from the Estonian National Museum. Somehow, I guess, this long trajectory makes sense! <smile> Anyway, tonight I added more links to the "Symbols..." page, especially some great ones on the svastika -- many more to go, of course, but it's a good start. Do I need to say that all the previous pages in this circuitous journey still have ungrokked links?! Hungary and Folktales also have ungrokked links. When do I find closure with all of these? Aaargggh. Well, so it goes.....

2 October 2000, 9:25pm: off and on all day I've been adding annotations & images to the 4 Baltic pages. I also turned what was the Russian "General Info" page into the Russian home page, with 3 subsections under it -- this means the organization of the Russian section is now in sync with all the others. My ISP was blocked for hours today, which made for a lot of frustration since I couldn't upload or surf. Sigh. A long day.

30 September & 1 October 2000, 11:13am: yesterday I split off Latvia & Lithuania and turned their original page into a general Baltic one; checked all Lithuanian links. Today added more new links to Baltic & Latvian (also Latvian images) and checked all earlier Latvian links.

29-30 September 2000 1:32am: I added a few more ungrokked Estonian links to my Baltic > Estonia page (see directly below) and finally split it off from the main Baltic page. When I have time, I'll give Latvia & Lithuania their own separate pages too and turn their current page into a general Baltic "homepage."

28 September 2000, 11:18am: Rune Hagen is now doing a German version of his Northern Lights pages, which means he added an "/eng" for "English" to his current URL; I updated my Floods/Weather page. ///// 6:30pm: returned to the Common Themes: Music page and did a few more links -- but the Estonian ones were so specialized that I needed to transfer them to the Estonia section of my Baltic page; more then cropped up as I began grokking them, which means I did a major new block for that page; I should really split that page into its three lands, but no time yet.

25 September 2000, 1:06pm: a Bulgarian webmaster sent me an updated URL for a broken link to her folkart page. In updating my Bulgarian #2 page, I found 2 more of her URL's were also broken (on music & fine arts), so I traced them back to the new ones & updated them too. Several more links (on other Bulgarian sites) are also broken or temporarily out of service but I have no time to track them down. Made small format changes to both Bulgarian pages. Considered doing a 3rd page on Bulgarian Music alone, akin to my recently updated "Russian Music" page -- it'd be easy as I'd only need to switch the music section on the Bulgarian #2 page. However, in looking at all the links, I realized that those for music are very much intertwined w/dance and it would seem too artificial to pull them apart. So I'll leave the page as it is.

20 September 2000, 1:19am: grokked 6 more links for the Common Themes: Music page; added several new images and deleted a large one that took up too many bytes.

19 September 2000, 7:26pm: got another award yesterday: "Shoulder of Giants" award, but part of the condition of acceptance is not to name the presenter nor link to the awarding site. So I'll honor that. Just posted it on my awards page sans link.

18 September 2000, 2:07pm: returned briefly to my Ancient Rome page to add a little section on Pompeii with an image & 2 links. Much more to do, but pulled between working on that page or continuing with the new Music page. Continuing eyestrain forces me to pace myself so much more cautiously these days.

17 September 2000, 1:53pm: I scoured my "old" bookmarks file so thatI could add more links to the Common Themes: Music page, including 15 that I haven't had time to grok yet. Also did a major update on the Russian Music page (it only had one link & one image prior to this). Made re-formatting, menu, bar divider, etc changes on the Eastern Europe + Old Europe + Russian Folklore pages (still need to do Russian Ikons and General Info). I hadn't planned to spend so long (5 hours) doing all this but it's hard to stop midway when I'm juggling too many links betwixt & between files! /////// 12:38am 9/17-18: updated Russian Ikons & Info pages, checked all links, etc.

16 September 2000, 11:09pm: back on 4/1/00 (see entry below), I found that the Kukas Gallery links for the 2 lovely Lithuanian "grails" were broken; I e-mailed for an update & then turned to other things, forgetting about these. A few days ago the gallery finally got back with an updated link, so I revised my Grail page as well as my "Common Themes: Serpents & Dragons" page (where I had a gorgeous "Serpent" painting from the same gallery). Since I try to check all links on a page whenever I have to access it with specific updates, just changing these 2 pages (with all the misc. things that needed revisions) took over 2 hours. I have a ton more links to update on many more pages. Sometimes, it gets truly overwhelming. I could work 24 hours/day & still never catch up. ::Sigh::

15 September 2000, 10:04pm: since 8/20, I kept forgetting that I still had 4 ungrokked links left on the Autumn Equinox page! I finally annotated them tonight and shifted various sections around on the page.

13-14 September 2000 (before & after midnight): created a new page in my Common Themes section: Music. It's been "forthcoming" in my main menu for ages but a site on ancient Roman instruments for my newly revised Ancient Rome page acted as a catalyst & I just had to do it.

12 September 2000, 11:58am: more additions of links & images to the Roman page. /////// 11:24pm: launched the "Special Announcement" on the home page for the December workshop Dianne & I plan to do near Portland.

11 September 2000, 11:05am: added another handful of links to the Roman page. The ungrokked section now has 4 left, but many more waiting in the wings.

9 & 10 September 2000 (1:04pm 9/10): yesterday I found a wonderful link to art on crones by Helen Redman -- because it was 9/9, in memory of Gram, I added it to the Crone/Sage page along with 3 other new links (including Mac's, which is where I found Redman). Today I started working on my ancient Rome page, which I haven't touched in nearly 2 years --it only had its "shell" plus one image -- no links, no nothing. I added a terrific map, maplinks, and a link to Ovid. I left 8 ungrokked links "live" on the page too.

6 September 2000, 11:35am: Home page updates: I got the problem w/Webcom (c-9/2/00 entry) fixed -- their support person had suggested I should update all my 155+ pages, one by one! That would have taken days!! But the problem lay with them -- they deleted the e-mail in error so I simply went to the Control Login Panel and reinstated it. It works now. Experts -- bah. Sometimes they really can't see the forest for the trees. /////////Added Laura's Headline Muse page under my "New" section. Later I'll add it to the PGI and Gen. Ref. pages. Also revised & tidied up a lot of things on the home page (e.g., music icons + added icon for Webcom -- give the devil their due!). /////////// 7:44pm: added the new Classical Traditions page and shifted relevant links from the ancient Greek page to this new one; put the appropriate icons and dates on the home page but since I haven't added any new links, per se (just shifted them from one page to another), I'm not doing a "NEW" entry.

4-5 September 2000, 12:26am: I updated that wonkey little What U Seek search engine on 8/20 and it reported that it had indexed 120 pages (23,200 words). On 8/29, I did another update and got the same number of pages but 500 fewer words -- only 22,800 -- despite the fact that I added a lot of new material! On 9/3 I did another update and this time I discovered that all my recent updates had been dumped and the search engine had reverted to one I did 6 April 2000 with 114 pages / 21,500 words. That did it! Tonight, I activated atomz.com: it immediately indexed 155 pages / 285, 774 words!!!!! Amazing. I'll keep both on the newly revised page, just in case, but I expect I'll eventually delete What U Seek, despite my affection for them. The differences are just too glaring.

2 September 2000, 9:26pm: on my home page, I removed the Pacifica conference data (we only have 2 days left before it ends), also the new admissions mention (classes start too soon!). /////////////// I added a notice about the problem I've just become aware of with webcom -- I've had no e-mail forwarded from them since 7/13/00! I honestly never noticed, since it's been so hectic around here, but several students notified me and I finally contacted webcom late last night when a test message I sent myself bounced back. They claim I'm using the wrong address! Yeah, right. It's worked fine for nearly 2 years. They also claim Earthlink is blocking it. But I've had earthlink for 18 months and have received hundreds of messages from the webcom account! Go figure. Sigh. To be continued, I hope....

31 August 2000, 12:11pm: of the 9 remaining Pan links, I annotated 6 and decided to skip 3 as not being good enough. Added a lovely "Pan's Song" image; also Burne-Jones' Pan & Psyche as the lead-off image (shifted the others around). The Pan page is now finished! I still have several links to annotate for the new Athena page but Pacifica's International Conference begins tonight through 9/4/00 so I probably won't do any webbing during that time.

30 August 2000, 11:35am: annotated 3 more Pan links and added 9 more ungrokked ones + Capricorn image; added 2 ungrokked links to Athena page + silver owl image; updated Klindienst "Epilogue" link on Ancient Greek page (my appreciation to Alan Liu for sending it so quickly).

29 August 2000, 2:32pm: daytime now -- & I decided to follow through on last night's temptation to delete all the jewels and blue glowballs indicating stages of completion on my home page. They're now "history." Instead, I'm using small, discreet "New," "Updated," and "Working On It" signs, plus dates. I'm only keeping these at a specific link for 4-5 months. It's amazing how much faster the page loads now -- and how much cleaner it looks too! ///////////// Also grokked a few more links for the new Pan page and left some ungrokked but "live." I need to go more slowly now & protect my weary eyes.

28-29 August 2000, 12:45am: I updated the homepage with the info on the Greek pages. I also stripped it of all the little diamonds & "bullets" prefacing each link -- it was just too "busy" & I got tired of them. Also stripped all but the most recent dates from the updates next to each link --- and revised the code page to reflect these changes. I was tempted to do away with all the codes entirely, and may well do that one day, but I took a middle road tonight.

The homepage changes (done in a more recent version of Netscape) kept crashing everytime I deleted certain bullets -- no rhyme or reason to it! Some changes were fine and then suddenly, a simple deletion of a green-diamond would crash the whole thing. What's odd is that when I finally gave up in utter frustration and switched to the much older 3.01 Netscape Gold, all the deletions went through without a hitch! Go figure. Of course, Netscape Gold 3.01 has its own bugginess, so I usually avoid it, but for tonight's massive home page changes (all of which were nested too close to vulnerable links), it really came through for me.

28 August 2000, 3:50pm: My Europe > Western Europe > Ancient Greece page was entirely too long because of all the myth sections so I split the myths off from the general scholarly material today. That means there are now separate pages for Icarus & Medusa (with Pegasus, Gorgons, Danae, etc) -- and also brand new pages for Athena & Pan. Giving the myth-clusters their own pages will give me much more flexibility so I'm really pleased with the change. I haven't mentioned this on the home page yet -- maybe I'll have time to fuss with that page tonight.

23 August 2000, 8:14pm: For my "Floods & Other Weather Wonders" page, I finally got a lead to updates on 3 dead aurora links from Douglas Potter. Updated them and checked all others; also added 5 new links plus a new cloud image from Luke Howard; changed the Noah's Ark image although the new one is by the same artist as before; deleted the italics on quoted passages and did a color change instead -- it'll be easier to read this way. Have 3 of the 5 new links left to grok. Maybe tomorrow. ////// Midnight: finished the 3, plus added a Green Flash image; updated the home page on this.

20 August 2000, Sunday, 4:21pm: added 6 new links (but only had time to grok 2 of these) to the autumn equinox page; also added a detail of Sandra's Athena & Owl to the page too. Then added the autumn link (+ the Weather-working Intro) to my Samhain page which, amazingly, has been getting lots of traffic all year -- usually much more than the actual seasonally-relevant pages. /////////// 7:45pm: changed the backgrounds & color schemes for my Egyptian "Beliefs" and "Men in Ancient Egypt" pages; also added a terrific new link to"Men" -- my "E" summer students never got to hear about this data but the "G" session students loved it. So I wanted to make it available to all.

18-19 August 2000, 1:15am: a few hours ago (on Michael's birthday), I published the Autumn Greetings 2000 page -- I used all new images but already had great links so all I needed to do was to revise them. That's why it went up so quickly today! I'll add a few more new ones, but it's still a fine page even if I don't. Summer pressures are finally ebbing and it felt good to be able to work on this page! It took ages afterwards to link it to all the relevant pages, but that's ok. It's just becoming a more complex website -- hardly unexpected, all things considered. I miss Sandra's Samovila painting, but it remains online for 1999. I meant to find new music, but I'm so in love with last year's little Hungarian melody that I decided to just keep it. I've kept the same summer music for 2 years running, so why not this one too?!

18 August 2000, 1:03pm: When I added Francene Hart's art to my Weather Intro page (see below for 8/8/00), I added my notification of this to the page's original June 12, 2000 "New" entry on my home page. It was too easily overlooked there however. What I should have done was to add an 8/8/00 entry referring people to the 6/12 addendum. But there's been no time due to summer session! So I only just got to it. Also changed the 7/29 date to 8/18 on the notice that we still have a few places left for our autumn pgms.

8 August 2000, 4:30am: I was checking for something else and wound up annotating a few new links for the Hungarian page; I also added 13 ungrokked links for those who wish to explore on their own. The tie between stag myths in Hungary and ancient Sumer seems too tenuous to take seriously, but what if such a borrowing is true...? ////11:58pm: finally heard from Alex Grey's manager re: my request for permission to use 2 of his images on my Weather-working Intro page -- their policy is to ask for a fee; they made a generous reduction since I'm connected with Pacifica (Alex Grey is familiar with us, it turns out), but it's still way too much since I get no stipend for this work. So, I removed the images earlier this evening. I'm now using Francene Hart's work, which, after actually seeing them in place on my page, I've realized goes extremely well with my content. I'm using 7 of her images. Also added 2 links (from Keith H.) to the weather-working links page. Added notification of this change in artwork to the home page.

7 August 2000, 11:33pm: on my home page, added a notice (wth animated wizard) of our Labor Day Weekend Symposium, 8/31-9/4. Phyllis said this would be ok so I'm glad to do it.

5-6 August 2000, 12:25am: I updated the 2 "ShanMonster" links again on my Burning Times page. I'd updated them 12/26/99 but then she went & changed her URLs again. When she notified me, I remembered that I'd already recently updated them and so ignored the notice. A few more months went by and she e-mailed me again, so then I knew it wasn't just a misunderstanding. Hers are really great sites, so I don't mind the nuisance of fussing with the page, but I hope this is it for awhile! That page has a very high rate of broken and changed URLs (found another besides her two & Herne still hasn't gotten back on his broken link).

1-2 August 2000, 12:25am: still haven't had time to figure out the sound effects for my Lammas page but did clarify Lark's authorship on one link plus added links to my Weather-working page + my Lore & History of Maize page (since both are relevant to Lammas). //// 2am: got tired of too-busy storm-cloudy background on my Western Hemisphere Weather Ritual page so replaced it with the Moyra Starry Night that was already on the Euro & Asian pages. Also used this same Moyra bkgd for the Intro page instead of its former plain darkblue bkgd; further, added my 7/24/00 disclaimer about not changing images to all 3 weather map pages. //// 2am: made minor format & spacing changes to the Maize Lore page -- also played w/its images and put 3 of its 6 into ovals.

30 July 2000, 12:31am: Of the 4 Lammas links left ungrokked, I ditched two as "unworthy," annotated the remaining two, and added Waverly's. The page is now finished except for the music problem, which might not get solved until next year. Sigh.

29 July 2000, 12:29pm: one of the links from the other night turned out to from Mike Nichols' work, although no credit was given him. So I switched it with Mike Nichol's Witches' Web page. One of the ungrokked links also turned out to be a Geocities version of Mike's essay, so I deleted it. I guess that means I just added 5 new links. I also switched to a different, more vulnerable-looking image for Lugh's foster-mother. Six links remain to be grokked, assuming I use all of them. [2pm-ish: Nedstated the page when I discovered 20 people have already visited it since I announced it in the wee hours of yesterday! Annotated another link, dumped a second one, so that leaves 4 left; also tidied up misc. details on home page.]

28 July 2000, 1:43am: it's nearly zero-hour but I finally started adding new links to the Lammas page for 1-2 August. I only did two last year, and one of those is now broken, so I really had to make time to work on this tonight. I added several annotations, plus 2 new images, plus 12 ungrokked links. Will try to do more tomorrow in between reading dissertations. I tried to add a .ram sound file with neat birds and insects but it refuses to work. It seems to need a plug-in, but to load the plug in requires way too much data. I may need to skip this.

24 July 2000, 12:34pm: still terribly swamped although at least the first of the 2 summer sessions is now behind me and all the new Egyptian/Mesopotamian lectures are therefore complete for the August go-round. But there are 6 dissertations plus comps and spring papers to read, so no time to do much with my website. However, my stats showed me today that the site has won another award, so I added that to my Awards page (along with 2 animations at the top and bottom of the page, just for fun). Concerned by the Mesa Verde forest fires, I also finally revised the last 3 of 4 paragraphs on my Weather-ritual Intro page to indicate that I won't be updating the maps at all -- they're now a baseline, but direct links remain to take interested readers to current updates. I'm disappointed that so few visit these weather-ritual pages, but have no regrets going out on a limb to do them.

9 July 2000, 10:40pm: in checking my stats for the home page today, discovered the site's been given another award -- the Astropro WOW award for the week of July 10th. Added it to the Awards page. Too buried in writing new lectures for next week's course to do more.

1 July 2000: added Harry Potter mention to new Euro Folklore page's "promo" under NEW on home page. Took about 5 minutes. No time for more these days. No time to get back to the Folklore page itself -- but did leave ungrokked links in place when I last revised it 6/24 [see below]. So people can explore on their own. Those are the last of the links to be grokked anyway -- I have nothing else squirreled away.

24 June 2000, 9:14pm: ditto from yesterday....I hate to do this so piecemeal, but have no choice as too many other demands pulling in too many directions. Just need to get up a decent amount of links for my Folklore class in time for their research on papers.

23 June 2000, 2:33am: ditto from yesterday....

22 June 2000, 2:09am + misc. daytime hours: added more links + images to Western Europe Fairy Tales page.

21 June 2000, 4:14am: have been wanting to add links to several of Jonathan's pages to my West Euro Fairy Tales page for months and finally did it tonight; also added Ashliman's general index link; also added some new images. But there's so much more to do. Just no time.

14 June 2000, 12:04pm: I have a growing pile of loose ends to update on my pages so this morning I did a few of them: on the General Reference page I changed the caption on the "Scholar at his desk" image to "Scholarship B.C. - i.e., Before Computers"; also added a new link to a huge database of movie reviews. On the Teachers' Reference page I updated Frank Rogers 4 links; also noted that the link to a great little essay by Roger Ebert had expired (I may e-mail him to see if there's a chance of getting the whole piece to use on my site but he gets 100's of e-mails/day, so it's unlikely I'd ever get an answer). On the Wheel of the Year I added the credit (from one of Mike Nichols' sites) for the opening "wheel" image. Just these few updates took about 2.5 hours, so there's no time for more.

12 June 2000, 7:03pm: went ahead and put my weather-working pages online. It'll be interesting to see what happens. None of the weather-workers got back to me over the weekend, which surprises me, but then this is an entirely new trajectory in weather-working and they may be checking w/DW. Still awaiting Alex Grey's ok on the art too. Francene Hart enthusiastically gave hers. {Update: shortly after I wrote the foregoing, I heard from several of the weather-workers privately & they all approve.}

7 June 2000, 7:30pm: added 6 new links to the Pacifica page, including 1 for Anne Kollath's thesis page for the Counseling Psych program & 2 for Marion Woodman; the additions include a new section on Dream Research.

4 June 2000, 2:51pm: because of the situation in Chiapas, I went back to the Mexico page, revised what I wrote last year, and finally published it w/4 links + a map + a great Mayan image.

2 June 2000, 1:08am: today when I clicked, as I always do, on the Hunger and Rainforest sites, I discovered a new spinoff, run by a different firm, but involving impeccable people -- this one plants trees, a project very dear to my heart. So I added a link to my home page as well as to my Summer Greetings 2000 pages. May many thousands, nay, millions, of trees be planted! ////// 3:02am: Sandra told me the artist on my Z Budapest's Crone page was Suzanne deVeuve, not Z. So I just corrected it. Suzanne deVeuve does cover art for Z Budapest & should be so credited on Z's page, but she isn't -- or at least I didn't see the credit. I'm glad Sandra caught this.

31 May 2000, 12:04am: annotated the last 7 links for my Finland page. For now, this page is done. It remains one of my favorites.

30 May 2000, 11:49am: Nedstated the Reference page today since I noticed it got 8 hits yesterday (despite its being a holiday), which is more than usual, & I want to track the success of its re-design.

28 May 2000, 9:14pm: I did announce the Reference page's changes on the home page a few hours ago (see below) plus tweeked a few things there. I also just published the Summer Solstice page for 2000 and linked it to the Wheel of the Year page. I still need to Nedstat it though, and do one final proofread tomorrow, so will wait til then to announce it on the home page. Karen St. Pierre is doing PR for a great July conference in SFO -- it's already on the solstice page but I want to draw attention to it on the home page too.

Still in the hopper: a few more links for the Finnish page -- and then it'll be done. The Finns have spoiled me, I'm afraid: they're so beautifully organized, they use the work of professionals in the field (thus I use almost no "talented amateurs" on my Finnish page), navigation is superb, and wonderful art & photos just drop into my lap like ripe apples. What a joy!

27 May 2000, 8:09pm: I completely changed the look of my Reference page (needed "Green Summer," which used to be there, for my Summer Solstice page, where it's a much more perfect fit -- found a much more perfect "look" for the Reference page too, so am pleased on all counts). I also added a new section to the Reference page on Films & Plot Data w/4 great links. Will announce it on home page tomorrow, but eyes too tired tonight to fuss w/it.

24 May 2000, 9:01pm: between yesterday & today, I added another 11 links to the Finland page -- 3 on music, 1 on women in contemporary Finland, the rest on prehistoric Finland (some of which are really fabulous). Among the music links are actual archival recordings (with online samples) of Kalevala singers!!! -- I was so amazed to find that one! I also created a page for Hungary today as I just couldn't leave her out -- but I still have about a half dozen more links before I can finish the Finland page and then I need to turn to researching/writing about 10 more hours' worth of lectures for my summer course. Thus, only one link and a map are all I have -- and am likely to have for many months -- on the Hungarian page.

22 May 2000, 6:41pm: added a prehistoric elk head photo plus two more links to my new Finland page -- one link begins a Prehistoric section -- I have a ton of links to grok for that section but my eyes are bothering me so I just wanted to get the section started today, with a promise of more; I also added a link on the status of modern women in Finland to the General Info section.

20 May 2000, 8:21pm, Saturday: between last night and most of today, I got the Finland page ready with great Kalevala links. I hadn't planned to do it, but I just did my Kalevala lecture on Monday, it went very well, I wanted to see what was on the web, and before I knew it, I was deep into the page and its art. It was great fun doing it -- and fits perfectly into course work as well. This meant revising the 1998 Finno-Ugric page (changed its background from woodsey7 to northern pines so that it fits with Finland); also the homepage (shifted a lot of material from March & April to the archives & tweeked a lot of other things so that it's ready for my next web demo at Pacifica on the 23rd).

19 May 2000, 5:39pm: made a few changes to my opening essay on the Australia page.

12 May 2000, 11:44am: Keith Heidorn notified me this morning that he'd changed the URL of his May Day Almanac page so I updated the link on my Beltane page.

11 May 2000, 1:33pm: an alert British visitor to my Australian page took the time to e-mail me today that there are a lot of dead links. The page has only been up since late last September, so I was surprised. But it turned out to be true -- one site has thoughtlessly reorganized everything without providing forwarding URLs! I managed to locate the "Australia Before Cook" essay, and so could update that link, but I had no luck finding other URLs from that same organization (their search engine was of no help at all), so they could be lost (I sent an e-mail to them, which may produce some revised URLs, but I'm not holding my breath); ditto on another series of links from another server. I shifted the dead links to a final section on my page and suggested that people explore the WWW Virtual Library near the top of my page instead. If I ever have time, I'll try to find one-on-one replacements elsewhere for each dead link, but that could take months as I'm so swamped. Meanwhile, the majority of my links on that page still work just fine, which is a great relief!

10 May 2000, 4:22pm: just added 2 more links to the Animal Guides page -- one is on Aesop's Fables, the other is Ashliman's (with many sub-links on animal lore). Also put the raven image into an oval, which looks better.

9 May 2000, 9:26pm: this morning Alice sent me a URL for her onotherapy site, which is so good that I had to create a page for it. That meant finally putting my heretofore "forthcoming" Animal Guides page online -- I designed it today, annotated a handful of links before and after our faculty meeting, and now it's up. Activated the link on the home page -- also shifted a few Feb-March entries from the "New" section. Will nedstat the new page before I turn in tonight.

6 May 2000, 4:57pm: Discovered today that the Hunger Site people just put a Rainforest Site online on May Day -- operates the same way, etc. No banners for links yet so I created a temporary one for my own site by using their transparent gif, and creating several different colored backgrounds. Just added a "hot link" to one on my home page. I'll add the link elsewhere on my site later on. //////// Russian Sunbirds' office mgr. sent me a revised URL for my re-telling of the "Stone Flower." I updated it on my Nature Spirits page.

4 May 2000, 1:17pm: to my happy surprise, the Crones & Sages page is now attracting a dozen or more visitors/day, so I just Nedstated it so that I can keep track of the flow.

1 May 2000, 2:40am: added an exclusive page by Z Budapest on "Crone Genesis" to my Crones & Sages page. Eliza at sacredspiral.com sent it to me, knowing how difficult it is to get good pages on this subject in such a youth-oriented society -- and Z told me it was fine for me to create the page!! I'm delighted.

28 April 2000, 11:41am: added Keith Heidorn's May Day essay to my Beltane page -- he wrote it specially, after I'd asked if he had one!! I'm quite touched by this. //////12:43pm: tried to do a search with my little search engine but no typing-frame appeared -- that's been happening a lot lately so I finally added a note about this to the page. Now people will know that if it's not there, it could be the firm's fault and not whether or not someone has javascript checked!

20 April 2000, 2:59pm: added Keith Heidorn's Elders Speak (+ his overall site map) and Rae Beth's Ostara page to my Spring Greetings page.

19 April 2000, 11:27am: just added a new link from the geology guide at about.com to my Earth Day page -- the past day or so I've been getting quite a few visitors to that page.

14 April 2000, 12:38am: I needed to tweek some things on the North America page. It should only have taken 15-20 minutes. But I didn't factor in about.com: lately, that firm has been stiffing Netscape 3.01 and lower, not allowing us to access links touted in their daily/weekly newsletters (I get 6 of them -- & I've been e-mailing them about this problem for 2 months now; I've even filled in problem reports at their request, but they've done nothing -- too busy putting up their "new improved design" to take care of daily nuts & bolts!!!). Last night I tried copying and pasting a backlog of about.com's URLs over to my Netscape 4, which is where I compose my website pages. It worked -- I got the data, but didn't realize that poor Netscape had balked for reasons unknown -- although the pop-up menu tonight mentioned an about.com library file. Tonight, when I went back in, I discovered that this idiotic problem with about.com had erased al  my preference pre-sets, including ftp codes, etc. Aaargggh. So what should have taken 15-20 minutes took an hour because I had to figure out what was going on & then replace everything. This is one of the things I loathe about the web -- wunderkinds too busy improving their "look" (like we care!!!) to give a damn about the mess they're making for people who just want those damn sites to work. Why don't those boy-geniuses get a life & give the rest of us a break.

12 April 2000, 11:37am: added 2 more links to the Beltane page -- that makes 7 new ones for this year, which is enough for now. In an hour or so I'll activate the links for North America & Canada's First Peoples on my home page. /////// 3:45pm: after activating those links, I decided to add a map and 10 links to the North America page (it had no links at all prior to this, but I grokked them last night & decided to go ahead & annotate them, especially since many required very little work) -- hopefully no one visited the skeletal version during the past 3 hours!

11 April 2000, 1:20pm-ish: added 4 new links to the Beltane page (still need to get a direct URL for the Utah planetarium page -- that'll be the 5th new link, once I get it). ///// RE: Wheel of the Year, on 4/3 (in addition to Nedstatting), I updated Margaret Rainbow's links but I said she changed one of those URLs every 3 months -- turns out it's every 6 weeks, so I just corrected that. ///////// 2:31pm: Found out that Von Del Chamberlain's essays for Utah's Hansen Planetarium are also on the Clark Foundation's site -- with direct URL's to each one! So I've now added his May Day page as the 5th new link to my Beltane page. The Planetarium's direct link to his spring essay, fortunately, still works -- if it ever "404's," I'll have a backup version w/Clark. //////// Finally took the time to remove the Christmas carol music from the now-year-round Mythic Shopping page; tweeked a few things on it as well. ///////////Created a near-skeletal North America page, linked it to the overall Indigenous Peoples page; linked both of them to the upcoming Canadian First Nations page (which I started last week), although it probably won't go online until later tonight. /////////// approx. 11pm put the First Peoples page online -- very pleased with its look -- just hope the "Permission pending's" all come through! It's linked to Indigenous Peoples and North America pages, but none of these are yet activated on the Home page.

5 April 2000, 11:45pm: the desire to do an Earth Day 2000 page has been ripening since seeing WolfStar's piece last week. Yesterday I realized Joanna Colbert's "Artemis" would be perfect for it, so that clenched it (I'd originally meant to use her Artemis for my Spring page this year, but it felt too "heavy" to couple the fierce Artemis with my own crone's curses!). I intended to use only specific Earth Day links, but that felt too lame, somehow. Then, in talking with Jane last night at PGI, I took another look at the Farm Sanctuary site and added that plus a handful of related links, which shifted the focus from mere celebration to real change in habits & thinking. Now it feels like a strong, relevant page. I've linked it to a number of other related pages from its own page, but have only done reciprocal links from the home page, Spring Greetings 2000, and, its "home base category" -- Earth Goddesses & Gods (under Common Themes).

4 April 2000, noon-ish: made some changes to Spring Greetings 2000 page so that its focus also includes Lore & Customs, not just "Greetings." Changed this on Spring 2000 as well as several other seasonal pages on the home page too.

3 April 2000, 12:45am: removed error-notice on home page (see 3/30/00 entry).  Removed a dead link on Asian Lunar New Year page (shifted it to Graveyard page); updated another link on that same page; tweeked fonts and colors.  Had forgotten to link the Lunar New Year page to my general Asian menu-page, so took care of that too.  To my surprise, I'm still getting close to 20 or more people/day on that Lunar New Year page so I don't want any dead or "404" links on it! //////// Daytime now: 5:07pm: Nedstated my Baltane & Wheel of the Year pages when I discovered that Altavista's search engine is sending people to the Beltane page; I hadn't thought it'd get enough traffic for that, so am pleased.

1 April 2000, 11:58pm: updated Templar link from "Babech" on Grail page. Checked all other links on that page too -- 2 were dead. Deleted one (a Spanish Grail site that was inferior to what I already have, although its photo of the Grail was better -- I think the 2/99 English version has the same one though); and wrote a Lithuanian webmaster trying to find out what happened to the Kukas Gallery link; will update it if there's a new one.

30 March 2000, 5:42pm: was working on my unlisted Mythworks today and couldn't figure out why the home page wouldn't "take." That was this morning -- probably around 11am. Well, I just found out why! It "took" all right -- but on the wrong site!!!! Although the Mythworks homepage is in an entirely different file from Mythinglinks, somehow the password and login "bled through" from one to the other and the Mythworks Funding Proposal homepage would up as Mythinglinks!!! Very embarrassing -- and I still can't figure out how it happened. According to Nedstat, not many people were impacted (less then 15-20, I hope) -- that's the only good news. Anyway, all's now restored.  Here's the notice I put on the home page:30 March 2000, 5:20pm PST: my apologies!  Through a fluke in my computer program, I just learned that an unlisted homepage from an entirely different site of mine accidentally replaced this homepage for much of this afternoon.  The error is now corrected.  I regret any inconvenience.

27 March 2000, 1:37pm: shifted items under "New" on the home page to the New Archives page. That meant adding Asian Lunar New Year at the top of my Asia section or else there'd be no notation left on my home page for that one! --had forgotten to do this when I added it last month. Put a note on its whereabouts under Wheel of the Year too.

26 March 2000, 2:04pm: yesterday, to my great surprise, I dreamed I was starting a page on puberty rituals. I actually had no plans to start any new page as I'm completely swamped! Updating a few links is the best I can do right now! Yet, it was Lady Day, and I realized that's also appropriate for Isanakleshe, whose puberty ritual would be the opening focal point of the new page. Not being one to ignore such a clear request from "Wherever," I went ahead and created the page -- just 6 links for now, but that's enough to "hold the standing wave." I put it online in the wee hours last night (i.e., this morning about 2:30am). Today I just changed the background from a watery turquoise to those pale teal crystalline shapes I love so much. It feels right now (especially since Isanakleshe is so associated with quartz, turquoise, black jet, etc).

24 March 2000, 4:10pm: updated The Daily Grail link on my Egypt/Sahara Home page; tweeked a few things on that page too. On the Awards page, added The Daily Grail's neat recognition of my site <smile>. Down with the flu so no energy for anything more.

20 March 2000, 7:15pm: minor tweeking on the Anatolian page. //////Then, 8:41pm, decided to add 2 new Anatolian links that have built up over the past few weeks -- about.com's huge page on archaeological digs in Turkey, and a great page on an ancient civilization on the steppes of the Ukraine.

17 March 2000, 4:21pm: on the Spring Greeting page, added a link to Easter customs in Sweden, and 2 links to Holy Week & Easter in Mexico (plus a lovely photo of 2 little girls on Palm Sunday). I think that page is now finished for this year.

15 March 2000, 12:08pm: updated Tony's link on my Credits page; also put him first on that page & added why he was so helpful. My site wouldn't be what it is without his woodsey background!

14 March 2000, 8:25pm: on Teachers' Reference page, changed caption on girl from India with slate after I got an e-mail from Sawnet pointing out errors in my original caption (the child may or may not be Hindu and the language on the slate is probably not Sanskrit).

10 March 2000: updated the acorn/oak link on the Treelore page & slightly revised the review; added 2 more Baba Yaga links (from Sacred Spiral) to Crones & Sages page.

9 March 2000, 6:26pm: added great new James Hillman link to the Pacifica page; published 2 new pages on Baba Yaga and linked them to the Crones & Sages page; added that data to Home Page and then moved the lovely Emerald Award from Home Page to Awards page (I'd left it on the HP for a week but I'm trying to cut down load times on that page and elsewhere, so needed to move it).

7 March 2000, 4:40pm: on Spring page = added morphing Green Man from Jay as a hot link to Beltane page; on Beltane page = checked all links and added new one for Spring 2000; tweeked a few things too; on Egypt/General Info page = deleted animated bars; checked all links, updated those that needed it; revised site review for artist's art reproduction page; tweeked a few other things; on Credits page = deleted mention of yellow-star-animated-bar from Tony that used to be on the Egypt/General Info page -- I loved it when I first put the site online but animated bars, by now, just seem too busy.

6 March 2000, 3:29pm: on Spring Greetings page, added Robin Wood link on grounding & centering in ritual-space; also updated Utah Planetarium link; tweeked a few other things. On Home Page, announced the existence of the Graveyard page (have had a link to it at the very bottom of the page since 3/2, but no one was noticing it there). /////// 7:04pm: added a link to Japanese spring festivals to the Spring page -- also 2 new images, and re-shuffled some already there.

5 March 2000, Sunday, 4:33pm: on Spring Greetings page, added Waverly's terrific page on Pagan Lent; added ref. to Ashliman site in review of Okelle's page; and Garnet approved the page I created for her Strinennia ritual, so that's now safely published & linked to the spring page. It looks great! Took down my solstice/Christmas tree last night, finally, so can now prepare the space for the Strinennia ritual on the eve of the 9th. ///////// 8:03pm: added 2 great links to Okana's Web on pisanki.

4 March 2000, 10:27pm: added more links & images to the new Spring page.

3 March 2000, Friday, 4:04pm: on Anatolia page, decided to add the Cambridge U. Catal Huyuk HP to the Cambridge discussion link I already had there; added Adrienne's fine tvl link; revised my review of obsidian religion page; shifted a few links around. Then spiffed up Graveyard page with some lotuses (negativized) instead of divider bars.

2 March 2000, 4:32pm: now for loose ends -- on Egyptian Beliefs, Myth, & Multi-Category pages I finally removed a handful of vanished links -- and, in a fit of whimsey, created a Graveyard for Lamented Links page. I shifted this batch there + all the others I've saved over the past months. On those 3 Egyptian pages I also tweeked a few things, updated a link, darkened the too glarey Coptic image, etc., etc. ///////// 10:14pm: last night in the wee hours before turning in I designed a new Spring Equinox page; I still haven't heard from Susan D. White's rep and I just can't wait any longer -- maybe I'll use hers next year, but I needed to get this year's going. I actually like the new page with the Russian sapling better than hers, so it's good it turned out this way. This evening I added 5 new links to the 3 from last year, played with images, and just put it online. So far it's only linked to the Wheel of the Year page, not to the Home Page. I think I want to Nedstat it before I go further. I still have a handful of links to add but I can do those gradually over the next week. The important thing was getting it up in time for the early March spring festivals that play such a special role, especially in Eastern Europe! ///////// 11:48pm: well, when I checked my latest e-mails I discovered my site had just been awarded the "Emerald Award" from There is a Season. It's quite handsome and I was quite pleased. Funny -- I'd just shifted all my awards to their own page last night and now I get a new one -- so I put it on the Home Page, where it blends in very well. As long as I was there, I added the Spring link too -- Nedstat's down again so I don't feel like waiting.

2 March 2000, 2:18am: finished 5 Hittite links (discarded one as it was inferior); of the 4 Hun links, only one was worthwhile (2 were SCA related, which I didn't discover until today when I started grokking them), so I discarded the others but replaced them with 2 quickie encyclopedia links. That means the Anatolia & Central Asia page is finally complete. I then updated the Home page. I also split off 2 new pages from the Home page -- one on credits, the other on awards: I've been wanting to do that for awhile because the Home Page was looking too cluttered at the bottom. I also updated the search engine page --- that whatUseek company is getting worse & worse --- not indexing any of my more recent pages despite repeated attempts.

1 March 2000, 5:43pm: added a German site with great archaeological links to the opening Near East page & tweeked a few things there; then finished up the Catal Huyuk links and images on the Anatolian page; this meant also re-shuffling some links on the weaving (kilim) theme. Still remaining: 6 Hittite links & 4 on Huns & Hunno-Bulgars-- then Anatolia will be done (I think!).

29 February 2000, 8:44pm: last night I added a Littleton/Malcor link to Anatolian page plus a great WeavingMuseum link to 3 exhibits; I think I may have added an image or two as well. Today I added more images and a handful of Catal Huyuk links; shifted around some placements of links and images too. The Catal Huyuk material wasn't figured into my earlier estiates about when I'd be done!

26 February 2000, 5:19pm: I keep finding new links for the Anatolian/Central Asia page so I've lost count now of how much I've done. I just added a slew of new links, however, most to the Caucasian section but also some great academic links plus another map link; found & added more images too. ////////// 7:11pm: just added another few links to the General Info & map section -- and found a great Head of Medusa from Didyma -- put it in the Archaeology section -- I wish the site where I found it gave more data on it! I now have 4 Hun sites left to do and 6 Hittite ones. Then the page will be done.

25-26 February 2000, 1:35am: added another 14 links (including quite a few from the Hermitage) plus a Scythian image of a reclining goat to the Anatolian page. I've combined 2 batches of links by now -- and have 10 left to grok & annotate. Then this page will be done (although I still hope to find a few more images).

24 February 2000, 1:50am: added another 9 or 10 links to the Anatolia page; also added an image from the theatre in Myra. I now have 3 ungrokked links left from the first raw 12, but have 20-22 waiting in the wings. //////// 3:05 am: added another 3 links (by Jeannine Davis-Kimball) plus an image of 2 amazons; 2 of these links are spinoffs from the 3rd, so I'm still left with 2 ungrokked ones from this first batch.

22 February 2000, pre-dawn Tuesday, 3:05am: still on the Near East: I transferred 2 Sufi links + the Islamic angels from the Anatolian page to the 3 Monotheisms page (where they more properly belong). Then I added a map, a Neolithic goddess, and an Amazon blowing a horn to the Anatolian page; I also added 3 map-links plus 5 Amazon links. I still have a dozen ungrokked links but I decided to leave them on the Anatolian page just as they are since it's still a work-in-progress (have another dozen, more or less, to add later). Only 1 or 2 people/day go to these Near Eastern sites anyway, so few will notice. I'm frankly surprised that more aren't visiting these pages, but c'est la vie. Expanded Anatolian page to include Central Asia since so much of Anatolian history is about migrations from the Eurasian steppes.

20 February 2000, Sunday, 2:15pm: the Near East's Anatolia page finally has some links -- 8, to be exact.

19 February 2000, Saturday, 11:39am: Pavel has changed servers at Russian Sunbirds & is slowly re-designing pages and links. So on my Russian Folklore page I updated the URL for his story index (now called "Readings," though that seems a clumsy choice) as well as for my "Stone Flower" re-telling. Also updated my unlisted page.

18 February 2000, 9:15pm: Iain Hawkins has now "domained" his Egyptian Akhet pages so I had to change all his links on my Egyptian Amarna, Religious Beliefs, & Multi Categories pages. While I was on these pages, I also checked all other links -- updating some, deleting dead ones, putting warnings on possible dead ones, and tweeking the comments & fonting here & there. Took 3 hours. I cringe to think of how many other pages might have broken links -- but it takes so long to go through them manually! That's why I only do it when a webmaster like Iain is thoughtful enough to give me a heads-up. //////// 10:12pm: April Arnold again changed her URL (last change was late December), so I updated the Egyptian Mythology page -- some links there are still "dead" but I hesitate to remove them yet as the data is so good.

17 February 2000, 2:38am: updated Rutgers link on Cross-Cultural page. No time yet to return to Near Eastern pages.

12 February 2000, 1:55am: still working on the openingNear East page (as the first major rains of the season fall outside in southern California): found a better, more traditional map on an Oriental Institute site so switched them; also added another 6 links to the page. Found an eerie Hurrian Hymn midi by R. Dumbrill that I'll add to the page when I wake up later today. Too tired & brain too blurred to handle the technology tonight. Geez -- who knew Hurrian Hymns were waiting around to be downloaded onto a computer?! Amazing. //////////////// 4:11am: OK, so if a person is sitting on an intoxicating Hurrian Hymn, how is that person supposed to sleep, knowing that it's daylight in the very Near Eastern lands where that hymn was once sung?! So, sigh, I've stayed up to figure out how to put it on my site, along with a lovely harpist image from c. 4000 years ago (I tinted it to look like what it probably looks like in real life). Fini. Genug. Basta. Now to bed. But I love the "feel" of this Near Eastern page. It "works," finally.

11 February 2000, 3:13pm: Nedstat-d the Tigris-Euphrates page plus tweeked a few things. Also created a brand new Near Eastern page, The Three Monotheisms, cobbled together from some of the opening comments (& both links) on the original Near East page; also used the Miriam-Jochebed-Moses image from that page; then I added more comments plus new links & images -- I'm especially pleased with the image I found for Islam. This leaves the original Near East page without much on it -- need to find a good map and start working on some general, opening links that'll apply to the whole region; I'm leaving Canaan & Anatolia in place on that page for now. ////////////// 11:26pm: Split off Canaan & Anatolia from the opening page, but no time to add any links or images to those 2 yet; did find a decent map for the opening page and added 6 or 7 new links, most from about.com. Finished all the navigational links for these nested pages. I'll give myself a week or two to get these 5 Near Eastern pages into better shape. ////// Nedstat-d 3 Monotheisms page.

10 February 2000, 10pm: since I'm teaching Near Eastern Traditions this summer, I want to start getting those pages up. So far, I've had illustrations only but no links except for the two general Halsall ones on the opening page. Today I split off the Tigris-Euphrates page from the opening page and added 8 links, a map, and Sandra's Lilith image. I'm not announcing it on the home page yet until I have more done. /////// 11:58pm: the javascript on my search engine also seems to have been corrupted by Webcom's latest foul-up because no little box appears; just uploaded it from my own files + added more on how to use it (e.g., don't type in "Garden of Eden, for example" -- you'll just get references for "of").

9 February 2000, 4:53pm: about.com just posted a page with coding to prevent one's site from being trapped in someone else's frames (what an irony since they're one of the worst offenders)! Hoorah!! It's:

<script language="JavaScript"> <!-- if (parent.frames.length > 0) {parent.location.href = location.href;} // --> </script>

I just inserted it at the very top of my home page and uploaded it -- it seems to be completely invisible -- at least on my browser. I just hope it works. While I was on the page, I tweeked a few things and also deleted the animated e-mail scroll near the bottom: it was using up nearly 24KB. I now plan to delete it gradually from all my pages so that I can free up those bytes for faster loading.

8 February 2000, 12:10pm: Webcom fouled up last week and my site vanished from sometime on Thursday 2/3 to Friday evening 2/4 -- I couldn't even get into my home page to FTP a warning that my hosting service was experiencing problems with traffic spikes, etc. My home page came up (sans graphics) at times; everything else got the dreaded 404's. Theresa finally called around 5pm Friday and said she had taken care of it and it'd be back online within the hour. But Linda Malcor e-mailed me yesterday to say the home page would only load to 46% and then freeze her computer. I haven't heard from anyone else about that, but that doesn't mean there isn't a problem (it came up fine on my browser, also on Larry's, btw). My suspicion is that somehow Webcom accidentally corrupted the file -- some browsers may be able to compensate, others not, so I just uploaded the home page a-fresh (after tweeking a few things). Hopefully, that'll solve any problems. [2/9/00: it did.]

2 February 2000, 8:09pm: just added 3 more links to the Asian Lunar New Year page -- They're really great & I just couldn't resist them, even though I thought the page was finished.

26 January 2000, 12:58am: just added 3 more links on Chinese New Year (from about.com -- 2 on great folklore and one is a general index of more links) to the Lunar New Year page; I still have 2 more on Japanese customs to add but will do that in the morning as my eyes are too tired tonight. ////// Daytime now, 1:29pm: added the 2 Japanese links + Open Directory's link and then tweeked a few fonts and colors.

25 January 2000, 7:11pm: Nedstated the new Lunar New Year page; added a link to it (+ an image) in the Cross-Cultural Holidays section of my Teachers' Reference page.

24 January 2000, 11:49pm: added Waverly's link to Imbolc page & interactive dragon lore to Dragons & Serpents page. Completed new Lunar New Year 2000: the Year of the Dragon and linked it to the above two pages as well as to Time & Starlore. Updated home page to reflect all this. Spent over 6 hours doing all this as February is fast approaching, but it was really hard on my eyes. I miss the days prior to 11/99 when 6 hours would be nothing!

23 January 2000, 1:21am: I've now given John Granrose's paper on the magician archetype a home on MythingLinks; updated the links on the Pacifica Special Interest page and also on the Trickster page. {FYI: it used to be on the now defunct JungIndex.}

22 January 2000, 1:03am: added 2 new links to the Imbolc page; I don't have any more new links for this page but may extract a few from general pagan sites if I have time. I'm also trying to get a brand new Lunar New Year page ready, however, with close to a dozen links yet to grok, so I probably won't have time this year for more on Imbolc, especially since those I already have are of very good quality.

21 January 2000, 11:45pm: odds & ends = this morning I did another update on Paula Vaughn's "Anthropology of Mysticism" site -- she hopes this is her final update (I have her listed on two pages -- the Jungian/Pacifica page + under the opening image on the Nature Spirits page -- it's a lovely site & I'm grateful that she e-mails her updates to me --- so many webmasters don't); I also made some minor revisions to my Search Engine page. This evening, I just added a new Southern Hemisphere pagan site to my Wheel of the Year page -- Margaret RainbowWeb in Australia sent it to me; did some minor tweeking on that page as well.

19 January 2000, 12:33pm: more problems with my Search Engline. According to the stats, someone searched for "Candlemas" a few days ago and got 0 as a result -- yet I have an entire page on Imbolc/Candlemas, etc!! Someone else searched for "Theseus" and got 108 files -- since the search engine currently thinks I have a grand total of 109 files (I actually have more, including the Imbolc/Candlemas file it hasn't indexed), to give 108 as a response means that a person might as well not have used the search engine! Besides, as far as I know, I haven't used Theseus' name even once on my site! Someone else searched for "Athena," got 82 references -- and "Athena" wasn't even listed in the first 10! -- what was listed instead? -- "addition," "Aton," and a bunch of URL's with "aa" in them! I was shocked. The search engine can't even prioritize something as simple as that. What's the point of inviting people to use the darn thing if it generates such rubbish?! So today I disabled the sounds-like function. Now at least "Athena" gets appropriate references right upfront. But "Theseus" still comes up with 108 files, "Candlemas" still comes up with zero, and I remain disappointed. I updated my comments on the search engine page to reflect some of this (although without going into the details I've just written here). Where I used to say that a "thorough" search could be done, I now say a "fairly thorough" search. Bah. The little engine was so nimble and accurate last July when I first installed it! How it's changed! -- the company has been doing a lot of re-formatting lately -- I hope they get their act back together again soon! Meanwhile, I'll try another re-indexing around midnight tonight, when things should be slow for them, and hope for better results.

17 January 2000, 11:45pm-ish: added another link to the Tree Lore page -- Waverly's fine page on the Jewish "Birthday of the Trees" feast. Highlighted this addition on the home page too. It's coming up in just a few days -1/2200.

10 January 2000, 10:26pm: added the last 9 links to the Tree Lore page. The page is now finished (unless something exceptional comes up later). This is my first completed page of the new millennium and that it should be on trees is very appropriate. /////// 11:33pm: added an explanation to my Search Engine page so people will understand what's happening if the search engine goes bust after an attempt at re-indexing.

9 January 2000, 1:54am: added 4 more links (3 Celtic + 1 Gypsy) to the Tree Lore page + a lovely painting, "The Druid," by Wm. Worthington, whose site I just discovered tonight; I've e-mailed him for permission to use this & uploaded it already so he can change my credit notice, etc, if he wishes. I now have 9 tree links left. In the "good old days" (i.e., prior to mid November 1999), this site would have been finished by the 4th or 5th -- but eye problems no longer permit 12-14 hour days of webbing! Still, the work gets done whether I play hare or tortoise. ///////////////// Daytime now, 1:50pm: just added another 3 links to the Tree Lore page ("Trees of Time & Place" & 2 OBOD sites, all 3 in the "Endangered..." section of the page); I replaced Worthington's link with another of his that seems better; also replaced the San Diego Druid link on Ogham lore with OBOD's page on the same -- since San Diego just "lifted" the essay from OBOD; decided to skip using 1 or 2 links from my files, but then turned around and added 3 or 4 more, so I think I still have 8 or 9 left to do.

8 January 2000, 4:22am: finished Harry Potter #3 -- a great pleasure -- love her imagination & zest; then added 2 more links to the Tree Lore page. That leaves 13 more before the page is finished. /////////// Daytime now -- 4:08pm: too many problems have emerged recently with my What U Seek search engine: many names have been dropped -- most authors & artists, even Baba Yaga; I looked for "PSI research" the other day (a term I have on at least 2 pages) & it came back blank; I discovered today that someone looking for "Medusa" had been sent to my Mythic Shopping page, where she isn't mentioned at all! So I e-mailed the company yesterday -- and I just now added a warning note on the search page alerting people to the problems. I dread finding a new search engine -- I had so much trouble finding this last one, but if it comes to that, I'll have to do it. ////////////// 4:48pm: thank goodness for Andrys Basten!! I went back thru old Webcom UG messages looking for other suggested search engines (in case worse comes to worse & I need a new one) and found her comparison of whatUseek vs Thunderstone. She pointed out that the best time to re-spider is very late at night because most search engines will skip pages if they don't load in a flash. Obviously, when Webcom's busy, pages load more slowly. That gave me the clue I needed. I went back in and realized my last re-spidering was New Year's Eve -- NOT a slow night! -- so the spiders found 125 files, they indexed only 300 words, and 329 of them were sounds-like words. The numbers seemed crazy to me but if the 300 figure was right, that meant they were only indexing approx. 3 words/page!!! On an educational site, that's absurd!!!!! But it makes sense if Webcom was backlogged and load-times were slow. Soooooo: Saturday tends to be pretty slow so instead of waiting for the wee hours, I re-spidered about 30 minutes ago: now the spiders found 109 files (unclear why there's a discrepancy here), indexed 19,900 words (MUCH better!!), of which 7,942 are "sounds-like" words. I tested several names, etc & it looks as if everything's fine now. I'm a happy camper. O-- & I deleted the "warning notice" from the search page.

7 January 2000, 11:52pm: I couldn't let my birthday pass without at least doing a little more on the Tree Lore page -- so I added 3 new links (w/"date added" notations) and also Nedstated it. I have about 15 links left and then I'll highlight the page on the home page's "New" section. For now, back to Harry Potter #3 <smile>.

5 January 2000, 2:14pm: I added another 6 links (each with a "date added" notation, like all the others) to the Tree & Plant Lore page.

4 January 2000, 3:09pm: added 2 more links to the Tree Lore page; I also replaced Sugden's Doors of Perception-4 image with a larger version; then I added 5 new images plus divider bars. It's looking lovely now. I'll gradually add more links over the coming days. ////////11:52pm: added 2 more links [Baba Yaya & mushrooms; Peruvian ethnobotany] & re-arranged parts of the page.

2 January 2000, 2:40pm: my first webbing of this new millennium was to revise some of the text (and fonting) of my Pegasus Project page, but that's unlisted (even though hidden within Mythinglinks). My first listed webbing was to add that great site with haiku and other literary quotes on trees, gardens, gardening, etc to my Tree Lore page; I also updated Jim's link on that page & tweeked a few things. That's enuf for today <smile> -- I want to get back to the 3rd Harry Potter book and then take a long nap.

30 December 1999, 2:47pm: turned in at midnight last night but woke around 4am, still thinking about the Weather page. Besides tweeking a few things (e.g., changed the divider bars & made small changes to some of the text), I've now added a small essay on my millennial wishes & curses -- full story is on the page itself; also added an addendum about this to the Home Page. ///// On Egyptian Myth page, found an updated link for the Bast site so revised it; Shawn Knight's URL was ok, it turns out, so I just deleted the note about its possibly being broken; Shand's pages are still down, but at least there's no "404" on them, so I'll leave them up. //////// On Burning Times page, still no update from Herne on his vanished page but, lest I forget later, I added a link to my Home Page, which I'd forgotten to do on the last go-round. /////// And that, as they say, is that! I plan no more updates, tweekings, revisings, or any other webbing venture until after the first of the new year. I now have a full day's work making zipped backups of dozens of major files; then I have to figure out how to get McAfee's latest viral upgrades (it refused to go thru yesterday). But for right now, I'm off to bed for a long winter's nap.

29 December 1999, 9:30pm: when I added those 4 links to the Weather page yesterday, I honestly thought the page was done. I'd forgotten that I had a bunch of other links in the main file that I'd never grokked! It nagged at me, so I gave in and added another 10 links today (I indicated "added date" so won't enumerate them here) -- plus a great image of Noah's Ark from Pavel's site. Now I think that page is done!!! The problem is, I haven't figured out to indicate a "done" page after a series of little dated blue-bead codes on my homepage so I'm not updating the home page until I do. ////// One of the Weather links on rainbows is now double-listed on my Teachers' Reference page. //////// Later: figured out the home page procedure & updated it.

28 December 1999, 3:26pm: today Rune Hagen also sent me a URL for Northern Lights, etc data that I added to my Flood, Weather etc page; I also had 3 other links to add to that page -- I've had them for months but had no time to get to them (Keith's on the Arctic Mirage; about.com Flood Mythology page; and another page of flood myths). So I did all that today. Tweeked things too --- and then realized the page was long enough that I needed to add subdivisions and shift everything around into proper categories; that meant adding a new image (a wind icon from a greeting card I scanned) and reducing Sandra's "Rainbow" in size, lest it overpower all the others. I checked all the other links on that page and all were fine except for 3 with "athena" in the URL -- hopefully, it's just a temporary server problem. Much of what I've been doing on the site the past few days are leftover "loose ends" from late summer! It feels good to get things tidy by year's end.

27 December 1999, 12 noon: Rune Hagen e-mailed me with an update for his Norwegian page so I revised it on the Burning Times page (see below); tweeked a few things here & there as well -- o, and Bettencourt's page now goes through safely but he still has those annoying pop-up Java comments despite his intention to remove them last summer; no word from Herne on his dead link yet. ///////// I also had 2 long-standing links to update on the Egyptian Mythology page: the fabulous new Neith essay from KG-G (this one is also on my Star Lore page -- where I added it many weeks ago); and April Arnold's new URL (she didn't have a forwarding link at her old site, so I'm glad she sent me the new one; I just wish she hadn't put it in frames so that a direct link to the myth section is now impossible).

26 December 1999, 11:26am: "Shan Monster" sent me an e-mail today to let me know her URL has changed. So I updated her 2 links on my Burning Times page. I also checked the other links on that page and discovered that the Norwegian academic one from Rune Hagen is broken (e-mailed him -- I hope he's just moved it and not deleted it!); the one with a great chapter from The Dark Side of Christianity had changed addresses, with no forwarding link, so I had to peel back the old URL until I finally found a clue & could revise the URL; Herne's essay has now vanished, so I e-mailed him; and Bettancort's gives me a security alert --- but when I hit "continue," Netscape disconnects me with an "illegal operation" pop up!; I tried twice -- same result; it's probably temporary so I'll try it again next time I'm updating that page.

Christmas Eve 1999, 7:38pm: I added 8 new links to the Winter Greetings page (a Sky & Telescope update on solstice moon; math and charts on Winter Solstice; info on Clement Moore's St. Nick; Chinese Winter Solstice; essays from Witches Voice; Christmas in Ireland; Christmas in Greece; and Christmas in Estonia) -- fortunately, most required only minimal annotation or I would have simply saved them for next year! I also reduced Sandra's opening image by 10% to reduce loading time.

23 December 1999, 8:32am: finally updated Taliszanna's link to 4 Native American stories on my Creation Myths-I page.

22 December 1999, 8:29pm: whenever I work on pagan feasts, I always wonder how they're celebrated "down under." Christmas in summer? Halloween in May? Etc. Margaret RainbowWeb recently sent me a text file (author unknown) of an essay on this. It comes from a now defunct site -- since she has no room for it on her own website, & I do, I found a great background for it, re-fonted it, etc. Before I could publish it, however, I needed to frame it with a MythingLinks navigational heading and footing. I thought the simplest way to do this would be to copy & paste it from a similar page. So I checked my other rescued "orphan" page, Paula Geise's on Mayan weaving, and discovered to my shock that I'd totally spaced out such navigation last July!! So I first had to fix Paula's page, adding links at the bottom to my Common Themes: Weaving page + Latin America; this meant I also had to add a new link back to Paula's page on my Latin American page (the Weaving page already had one). Then I could return to the Southern Hemisphere page, copy and paste the new heading & footing, and publish it. But I also had to add new links to this new page on my European Wicca page + my Wheel of the Year page. I think I have all this properly done so that everything is smoothly linked!! Navigation can really trip us up -- it took me close to 3 hours to get it all straightened out! /////// I also, finally, archived my first year's worth of updates.

18 December 1999, 11:49am: added two new links to the Winter page -- one on Christmas in Australia; another on Jesus as a Capricorn -- not! Also tweeked some things here & there, shifted Lady Snowfall image up to the Mythic Shopping link data (keep trying to showcase that shopping link more effectively w/o getting "commercial" about it -- as it's still getting very few hits); added gorgeous little image of a stag near the very bottom of the page. Then, on the Shopping page: added a great link on "Monsters in the Toybox" about what not to buy. /////12:30pm: just made the time to change the music on the shopping page to the lively Good King Wenceslas, which better suits it. I especially love the "thumping" beat, which reflects Silver Hoof as well as little Alise's Navajo boots!

17 December, 1999, 7:33pm: on my Winter Greetings page: tweeked some things here and there and also added 3 new links, one on particulars of the moon at perigee for the Winter Solstice; one from the Islam guide at about.com; and Vilija's page on Saule from Sacred Serpent -- great data on her.

16 December 1999, 9:28pm: on homepage -- few are coming to the new "Mythic Shopping Page," so I added it to the home page; also changed the URL on the Folk Tale award to the actual award link, instead of to their home page. ///10:30pm: made minor revisions to Mythic Shopping page; also added 2 new links --- JBL and the Rose of Attar Bulgarian site; discovered while doing this that the Bulgarian site had changed their URL, so had to update that page (+ annotation) as well.

14 December 1999, 9:18pm: just for fun, I decided to add a Mythic Holiday Shopping page, which is linked only to my Winter Greetings page. What made me finally decide to go ahead with this was receiving the lovely little Navajo baby "boots" from the Navajo Co-op yesterday. In my own small way, I just want to help make them, and others also deserving, better known.

12 December 1999: on Winter Greetings page, added data on winter solstice full moon, etc from Dina Franz' friend. Deleted underlining & increased fonting on orange dates in the specific calendar dates section.

7 December 1999, 8:02pm: updated the data for one of the links on my "Day of the Dead" page -- one of the co-authors sent me an e-mail some weeks back to thank me for the link and to tell me she'd updated the page to include a link to her new 1999 exhibit -- just checked it out -- it really has some fantastic work, some of it done by her (Alexis Ciurczak).

6 December 1999, 6:08pm: I had 4 loose ends left on my Teachers' Reference page which I finally took care of: updated Study Web with a no-frames URL; the Treasure Island study unit was broken when I first published the page in late October -- but now it's fine so I could finally annotate it; added Frank Rogers great "Librarians from K-12" page + the Tree Pals page. Also put the "Cool Site" award logo and data at the top of the page. I'm extremely gratified, by the way, that this page gets so much traffic from educators!

5 December 1999, 2:30am: still on my Winter Greetings page -- as far as I've been able to determine, there's no Moslem tradition of a winter celebration like solstice: (1) their calendar is lunar, not solar; and (2) solstices aren't as significant in southern locales as they are in the far north. However, I did discover that Ramadan, THIS YEAR, is c. 9 December - 7 January! I find that stunning because it places this Moslem month of Ramadan squarely across the other monotheisms -- Chanukah 12/3-11, Christmas 12/25, and orthodox Christmas 1/7. In all the press about Y2K and other negativities, why has this positive convergence of these 3 usually fratricidal religions, all born in the same desert, being ignored?! Amazing. Anyway, I located all my Ramadan links + the image early this morning and annotated everything late tonight. ////// These new additions put my page at 604 KB -- but when I changed Joanna's Holly King and 12/26 goddess from gif's to jpg's, the page dropped to 536 KB, which really helps. Now, finally, I think this page is really done.

3 December 1999, Daytime now -- 3:28pm: loose ends on the Winter Greetings page. Before I turned in, I noticed that under the Eastern European links I had 2 specifically on Christmas Eve in Poland -- Okana's and another one. I decided I needed to shift the other one to my date-specific section, with a x-ref. to both. So I did that when I got up -- but a webpage is like a house of cards: move one site and the arrangement may fall apart on you. I started seeing other URLs that could be shifted elsewhere, etc, etc. I've been reluctant to use section dividers on that page but I finally realized I had to do it. It took about an hour to find the right dividers (a silvery, ornamental one turns out to be perfect, IMHO). Then it was fun to re-organize & re-sequence the page. The page is really huge and I'd prefer to split it into 2 pages (for ease in loading, etc) but I know from my expertience with the 2 Creation Myths pages that no more than 20-25% will click on a second page. Images: the new Kwanzaa image had skin tones that were too red -- I mellowed them somewhat & it looks better; the detail of da Vinci's Baptism of Christ looked too pale so I enriched it to the same level as his Magi. ////Everytime I say that Winter page is finished, some new thing crops up and I'm off again. So, The Winter page is NOT finished. ::chuckle:: -- now maybe I can get some rest!

3 December 1999, 12:52am: Well, I spoke too soon <smile>. My Winter Greeting page links to sites with their own links to Chanukah and Kwanzaa (which I noted where appropriate), but I couldn't accept that there wasn't any interesting art out there that I could use for my own sections. Chanukah will be the hardest so I'm leaving it for morning -- I mean, every site I've come across has a menorah, and that's it! For Kwanzaa, however, I did find an online greeting card image that I like (although I wish it were a bit larger) -- and then I sorted through a collection of URLs to find the five best ones for Kwanzaa. I just uploaded all this. ///////// 3:09am: I wouldn't have slept well anyway so I started searching for more Chanukah images and just found more menorahs, lovely but too static on a page. Suddenly I thought of Chagall's work -- in at least one there's a menorah in a shimmering, alive context. I never did locate that one but found, instead, "The Three Candles," which works beautifully -- not on a literal level, but on a spiritual one. I'm really excited to have found it. Added 3 fine links and just uploaded it. I'm pleased now. All the pieces are in place & I love the way the page has turned out. One nagging question however: are there no Moslem winter solstice celebrations? I haven't come across any but they must exist. I'll search in a few days. For now, to bed.

2 December 1999, 6:25pm: accidentally forgot the Alpine Shaman's Yule link from last year, so added that to my Winter Greetings. Found a great "Adoration of Shepherds" (Ghirlandaio) for Christmas eve plus da Vinci's Adoration of the Magi -- fussed with both to get the right details; ditto on da Vinci's Baptism of Christ; also fussed with color balances on Mummers.gif as it was way too red. Wish I could have found great images for Chanukah and Kwanzaa but nothing came up. Maybe next year. For now, this page is fini.

1 December 1999, 1:50pm: added 11 new links + new images to the Winter Greetings page -- most come from the Swedish Lysator and Bulgarian sites (I decided it was easier to break them down into separate components). One new link that doesn't come from those sources is a great one on Christmas trees. I'm finished with the links for that page now (unless something terrific comes up later). I still need images for Christmas eve and the Magi. Then it's done!

28 November 1999, 12:33pm: Loose ends = on my Time page, added impressive about.com link to ancient & medieval calendars; also added 2 new images from Andrew: Daydreaming Woman for the Circadian time section, and a comical fellow awaiting the millennium (my title, not Andrew's) for the Millennial section; deleted the animated Saturn gif because it just never loads properly. /////// On my new Winter Greetings page, some minor tweeking here & there (including a link to my Time page for those wanting more info on calendar changes from 12/25 to 1/7, etc) plus two more links -- Keith's great essay on frost and Countess Maria Huber's site. I now have only one final link to add to that Winter page (unless I come across others as days pass) -- a Swedish one that looks great but still has to be grokked -- maybe I'll have some time Tuesday for this. ////// 1:39pm: a random check of several of my NedStat-d pages turned up the fact that on my Latin America meta-page, 24 of the last 25 visitors came from the same site. I went to the site -- it's done by a teacher who mentions in her links that she finds navigation difficult on my page. Since I work sooooo hard to make my navigation as smooth & logical as possible, I was really puzzled! I took a look to see what could be wrong. She's right -- it could be organized better. Unlike the majority of my other pages, I think the problem with the Latin American page lies in the fact that I did several related pages piecemeal, before having time to give them their appropriate slots -- e.g., "Day of the Dead" belongs under "Mexico" but there's no "Mexico" page yet, etc. So I tidied things up, shifting categories, adding a link to my search engine, and trying to leave a clear explanatory path. I hope it works better now -- and will e-mail her to see if she has further suggestions. [12/1/99: turns out she had no problems at all but her freshmen have trouble if there's too much to read in order to navigate.]

27 November 1999, 2:07pm: Loose ends = Matthew Clapp finally "killed" all his wonderful Jungian pages. I got a temporary URL last night for Paula Vaughan (she's using her husband's site until she finds a new host) & updated the Pacifica special interest page + added her link to the Grimshaw image on the Nature Spirit page; John Granrose's URL also died in this upheaval -- I've e-mailed to ask if there's a new URL and put a "broken link" notice on the Pacifica & Trickster pages in the meantime.

26 November 1999, 2:30pm: added 2 new links to the Winter Greetings page (Carol McCullough's worldwide festivals and the France-Canada one); still have a few more to go. On the Homepage: added yesterday's "FYI" to Africa. ///// 4:05pm: added 2 new links to Bob Romanyshyn's interview and paper on the Pacifica Special Interest page.

25 November 1999, 3:47pm (Thanksgiving Day): I just published my Winter Solstice page about 10 minutes ago. I still have about 6 links to annotate and add, but I'll do that gradually over the next week or so. My eyes are too tired to finish them today. I also updated the home page (added an FYI on the Indigenous Peoples section explaining that altho that section is weak, using my Search Engine will turn up many indigenous links among my "Common Themes" pages); and the Wheel of the Year page.

23 November 1999, 8:30pm: on the Common Themes: Weaving page I double-listed a new link on the Baltic sun goddess Saule and her relationship to amber whorls & spinning (it's also on the as-yet-unpublished Winter Greetings page, which I'll put online tomorrow or Thursday); on the European Earth-Based Ways page I added new images (summer, fall & general seasonal) plus revising the links to my own greeting pages under each category; a few days ago I also deleted the Yule links on that page and made sure all that data was shifted to the new Greetings page -- I forget which day I did this but it's noted on the page itself. Current eye problems mean I have to severely ration computer time so everything takes so much longer.

20 November 1999, 3:27am: on my Starlore page ----- Michael McLay sent me his updated URL a week or so ago but because of eye problems, I couldn't upload it right away. I did so tonight. While I was at it, I added 3 new links (Shelly Wu's Year of the Metal Tiger, the great Neith paper, & the WOW awards archives that I'd discovered through Michael's page).

14 November 1999, noon-ish: I'd misfiled a URL to a site on spider myths, movies, comics, etc. Found it this morning under "Animals & Birds" so added it to yesterday's Weaving page. ////////// Also deleted 4 "unlisted" pages (on birthdays, illnesses, etc) that are no longer relevant.

13 November 1999, 5:43pm: in about 6 hours, this site will have been on line for a full year. Uploading all of it last year was a nightmare of technology gone awry. This year was so much easier! To celebrate the webbing, I've been working on a new page on weaving since late October [see entry for 10/30/99]. I finally finished it about 30 minutes ago -- and launched it: Weaving: Arts & Lore.