Patricia deSandro (aka BonaDea Lyonesse) has served the Pagan community for decades, working within the wisewoman/shamanic and Romano-Celtic traditions as healer, elder, and high priestess. Her knowledge of wild herbs and healing ways came from the teachings of an Amish farm wife, a Cherokee elder, a wisewoman healer, a witch queen, and a conjure man. She blended their wisdom with the teachings of her spirit contacts and her own gifts to develop her unique spiritual path. BonaDea has been teaching and presenting rituals and workshops in many places throughout the country for public and private events since 1990. In 1999, she founded the Circle of the Sacred Grove Temple of the Old Religion as an initiatory coven. BonaDea is also a storyteller as the character Granny Root, sharing her original fairy tales as teaching stories for children and adults. She devotes her time to her ever-growing family, her writing, her community, and her painting.