(This is the thirty-fifth installment of Dice Tales, an ongoing series of posts about RPGs as storytelling.) *** As we leave behind the macro levels of game planning and zoom in on the smaller-scale preparation, the ratio of effort to … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2016
by Brenda W. Clough I heard once of a woman who, when she was in high school, was asked to the junior prom by a teenaged Bill Gates. She turned him down. Every now and then she thinks about that, … Continue reading
In my Book View Cafe blog post of May 28, Thor, Bear dog, and I went “forest bathing,” a trendy new term for an age-old practice of simply being in the forest and soaking in the “is-ness.” So this summer … Continue reading
There are many lists of “gotta read” books on the Internet. At least some of them start from the idea of the “formative” books of one’s life, the ones that changed the way you saw the world, that changed the … Continue reading
Today I took the kids and the folks to visit a rose nursery. They have an enormous rose garden you can walk through with all sorts of paths and benches and oh, the lovely roses everywhere. We are tearing out … Continue reading
I’m in another Storybundle from now through September 8th, and as part of the fun (because these are very communal experiences), we’ve all been interviewing each other about our books and our theme, which is Weird West. For those who … Continue reading
Last weekend we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the U.S. National Park Service by visiting Pinnacles National Park. To be honest, we didn’t realize it was the 100th anniversary until after we’d already made plans to go camping there. We … Continue reading