Learn to craft effective rituals. Build a faerie garden. Understand Gothic Paganism. Host a Samhain ritual for the dead. From articles previously published in popular Pagan magazines like PanGaia, New Moon Rising, and Circle Network News, Belanger has collected a retrospective of personal non-fiction produced from 1994 until 2004. With a brief introduction to each reprint, Belanger provides a guided tour of the articles themselves as well as the time period from when they came. Taken as a whole, A Winding Path of Words is a map to a portion of the past, providing valuable insight into the changing landscape of Pagan practices, scholarship, and beliefs.