Sophia Letourneau is a pagan, which means she regularly participates in the most important pagan ritual: explaining what a pagan is not. Among her least favorite misconceptions are that pagans worship the devil, use black magic, and engage in animal sacrifice. In reality pagans are far more likely to be…

Botanical artist Mary Ruden has never lost a body part while traipsing through dense swampland deep in the Everglades’ Fakahatchee Strand to hunt for orchids, but many of her colleagues have come close. “One of the men I go there with was bitten by an alligator three inches away from…