I’m Chris Cookie (formerly known as Brecheen). Welcome to my blog.

I’m just your typical purple-haired, non-binary, promiscuous, polyamorous, pansexual, pagan priest of The Morrigan who combines an eclectic blend of skill sets into being a modern-day priest.

Priest of The Morrigan

I’m pagan—which is weird because until I was called by an Irish deity called The Morrigan in 2021, I was an atheist who had never even heard of Her—or really the Irish pantheon at all. It’s been a whirlwind few years coming to accept what was happening to me and adjust. There have been visions and dreams and a calling and I have been assigned a lifetime of work—and this blog is part of that. I’m not an academic, and I’m going to punt most questions LIKE that, but I can share my own experience.

Writer

I’ve been writing for forty years. I got a degree in creative writing, and went on to blog professionally about writing for twelve years. There’s at least one book in me somewhere—under my duodenum, I think—but I need more time to write it. For over a decade, I wrote the blog Writing About Writing over on Blogger, and most of those articles will end up here, so this will probably always be one of my most prolific topics.

Certified Personal Trainer

As of one year ago, I am a National Association of Sports Medicine Certified Personal Trainer with a certificate from Diablo Valley College in Fitness Coaching. (I’ll be getting a certificate in Fitness Training and an A.S. in Fitness Instruction over the next couple of years.) I will gladly take you along my experiences, trails, tribulations, and triumphs as a CPT myself, as a runner, and generally someone struggling to balance a sedentary passion (writing) with an active one (fitness).

Tarot Practitioner

I’m still pretty new to tarot, and I need to double check a lot of the upside down meanings. But I’m REALLY good at the overarching narrative. And I don’t know how much you “believe” that tarot has something “woo woo” going on, or is just sort an intuitive glance into the unconscious psychology through symbols and personal interpretation, but my readings tend to be very prescient.

Social Justice Bard

There are social justice warriors; there are social justice healers; lots of social justice rogues get behind you and you never see them coming; I’ve even seen a social justice sorcerer. But I’m a social justice bard. I can do a little bit of fighting, a little bit of magic, a little bit of stealth, a little bit of healing, and I’m really really good at analyzing the language and constructing or deconstructing stories. A lot of the writing I do is about social justice. Violin skills need work, though.

Ethical Non-Monogamy/Polyamory

I don’t do monogamy. I probably COULD, but I don’t. While how I live my own life shouldn’t be a big deal, it ends up being a curiosity to most. I get lots of questions from people mostly socialized to believe that monogamy is the default, people who are new to polyamory, and people who see me. After twenty-five years, I have finally overcome juuuuust enough imposter syndrome to write about it.

Future Roles

There are things I’ve been tasked to do (by The Morrigan), but I can’t do them yet. I’m having to learn entire skill sets and create them one at a time—and roughly in order of importance. So more things (like death doula, a massage practice in craniosacral massage, and learning skills in an Irish instrument) will be showing up here in time.

More

It’s also probably worth knowing a couple of things I don’t keep secret, but they’re not like their own menu topics or anything. I am a cancer survivor (colon cancer), and without drinking more than a dozen drinks in my entire life or ever getting hepatitis, I managed to go into early stage kidney failure. I screen both these things regularly and I’m okay right now, but the last four years have been a struggle, I had some hospitalizations, and I nearly died a couple of times.

I also cannot do this on my own. Check out the [Cast and Crew.]