So who am I?

Good grief! You still want to know more?
Well, you can find out by reading on:

Groups I'm Affiliated With

• Travis County Green Party -- The Green Party is the only party whose principles have the least chance of getting this nation through the collection of catastrophies facing us in the next few years. Our philosophy is organized around the "Ten Key Values" of grassroots democracy, social justice, ecological wisdom, non-violence, decentralization, community-based economics, feminism, diversity, responsibility, and future focus.
  
  
• Red Cross of Central Texas -- The Red Cross is the largest, and most effective, volunteer-based disaster service organization in the world. The central Texas branch of the Red Cross is ready to provide services to victims of disasters from house fires to hurricanes. The Red Cross always needs volunteers to help us accomplish our mission; it also needs monetary donations so we can buy needed equipment and supplies and provide cash stipends to help people make it through disasters.
  
  
• Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region -- Planned Parenthood is the nation's premiere sexual and reproductive health services organization. They offer preventive service such as cervical cancer screening; family planning information, services, and supplies; pregnancy termination services; and education about sexuality, including the new "Talk First" program to teach parents how to talk to their children about sex.
  
  
• Austin Human Rights Commission -- I am a member of the Austin Human Rights Commission, the Austin city government agency charged with investigating and reporting to the City Council any needs or problems in the area of human rights. My area of responsibility is housing - for 2009, with special emphasis on affordable housing and mortgage foreclosures.
  
  
• Gaia Spirituality -- This web site describes the spiritual path, based on Wicca, that I have created and follow. It is centered around building the kind of spiritual foundation that's going to be needed over the coming years. It is centered around the celebration of the worth-ship (which is the root of the word "worship") of four aspects of our existence: the self, the community, our mother Earth, and the Divine.
  
  
• The Live Oak Local Council of the Covenant of the Goddess -- The Covenant of the Goddess was founded in 1975 to increase cooperation among Wiccans and to secure for Wiccans and Wiccan groups the legal protection enjoyed by members of other religions. The Live Oak Local Council is the local presence of CoG in central and south Texas, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. I currently serve as the public information officer of Live Oak.
  
  
• Austin Area Interreligous Ministries -- The Live Oak Local Council is a full voting member of AAIM; I volunteer to be a table host at the monthly Red Bench discussion events sponsored by AAIM.
  
  
• The Naturist Society -- This is a national organization of naturists and nudists. It publishes the quarterly magazine "N" with news, essays, and reports on great places around the world to enjoy life clothes-free. It also sponsors the Naturist Action Committee, whose task is to monitor and, where possible, influence state and national legislation that affects our freedom to engage in nude recreation.

Groups I Was Affiliated With in the Past

• Travis County Libertarian Party -- From 2000 through October 2005 I was a member of the Travis County Libertarian party; I was the Party's candidate for State Senator from Austin in the 2000 elections, earning 18% of the total votes cast. My TV show, Liberty & Justice for All, was a regular segment of the TCLP's show, Live & Let Live.
  I am no longer a member of the Libertarian Party; instead, I have moved my affiliation to the Green Party, above.
  
  
• Council of the Magickal Arts -- a Texas-based organization that hosts a semiannual gathering of over 500 Pagans of all kinds, at Samhain and Beltane each year. Thank Goddess, it's pretty much recovered from a dark time when incompetent, and in one case even malicious, leadership nearly destroyed it.
  
  
• The Pagan Alliance of Central Texas (PACT) -- a group of Wiccans and other Pagans that acted for fellowship and support of its members, and to raise public awareness that Paganism is a valid religious path in the world today. I served as president of PACT from May, 1998, to April, 2000. Sadly, PACT went out of "business" in 2002.
  
  
• VORTEX Repertory Company -- I was a member of the Company from 1992 until 2001, but my job requirements prevented me from continuing as a Company member. While I was a member, I stage-managed several shows, acted in one show (The Pitchfork Disney), and directed one (Free Will & Wanton Lust, the last show at the old Ben White location).
  
  
• I created the original web site for the Personal Safety Awareness Center and the Austin Rape Crisis Center (which has now merged with the Austin Center for Battered Women to become SafePlace). Until the end of 1996 I managed those pages and did hot-line staffing, hospital assistance for rape survivors, and public speaking to people in the 6th grade through college. During that time, I was recognized as a "Hall of Fame" volunteer.