This year is the 50th Anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons. Coincidentally, it is also the 40th Anniversary of Dragonlance which was first released at the GenCon game convention back when the convention was held at the University of Wisconsin – Parkside. This year, Laura and I will attending GenCon not only to celebrate Dragonlance but […]
A lot of people did not like the 2015 Walt Disney Pictures film, “Tomorrowland.” Perhaps, I think, it is because it’s central message was that we have to take responsibility to do something about hope. In the film, there is a parallel reality called ‘Tomorrowland’. Originally a place of hope, inspiration and innovation — the […]
Down the years, Margaret and I have met countless others who have found in our words the strength to do hard things, the comfort to make it through the long nights or years, and the inspiration even to learn how to read.
Plague, Civil Unrest, Earthquakes … and a Few Blessings Along the Way With my website’s now reasonably stable for the first time in years and having just taken my first pain pill of the day, I thought it would be a good idea to let you know that … having so far survived this ongoing […]
I was sworn to silence… but now the secret is out! When my son, Curtis, was a boy, he used to create theme parks for the rest of the family in his bedroom. Then in his teens he began performing magic professionally. As he grew to manhood he even began creating illusions for other magicians […]
It was thirty-three years ago today that my wife and I arrived in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin with our then two children. Our drive had really started four days before when we loaded what little we owned out of our apartment in Logan, Utah onto a moving van and drove south to meet my parents in […]
OK, I’m not saying that Alan Tudyk and I are close … although he did let me have a booth next to his at Gencon Australia. And I’m not saying that Nathan Fillion and I are BFFs even though he did take a selfie with Laura and I some years ago which I show off […]
I’m delighted to announce that I am slated to write a novel in support of Underworld Ascendant, a Kickstarter project currently being funded online. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed worked with Richard Garriott as the Lead Story Designer for his Shroud of the Avatar MMORPG and was subsequently approached by Otherside Entertainment. As Underworld Ascendant takes place […]
Or why is this (fill in the blank) project so late? Starting about the time I was in Junior High School, I became fascinated by Einstein’s theories of Relativity. Mind you, my books on the subject were very basic and I had trouble telling the Specific Theory from the General Theory but I had a […]