On Being Alone

At the moment I’m publishing this post, my wife will be somewhere on I-70, driving west towards her parents’ new home in Kansas. After having worked six months straight, she had several weeks of vacation to burn, and now that she and her parents are fully vaccinated, it felt like the right time for her

You Make Me Feel Like a Natural 20

It’s impossible to say what first drew me to Dungeons & Dragons. It might have been the vivid ads in the G.I. Joe and Fantastic Four comic books I read growing up, barbarians swinging axes and swords at dragons bursting from the page. Or maybe it was my babysitter Mike, the coolest seventh-grader in the