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My 2025 in writing

Last year, I kept track of how far I ran (miles), how much I wrote for fun/free (words), how much time I spent playing RPGs with friends (hours), and how many books I read. Bluntly put, 2025 was not a great year for creative writing on my own time. Give or take, just shy of 4,600 words,Continue reading “My 2025 in writing”

My 2025 in RPGs

Last year, I kept track of how far I ran (miles), how many books I read, how much I wrote for fun/free (words), and how many hours I spent playing tabletop roleplaying games with friends. The Monday night online crew 2025 kicked off with the highly satisfactory conclusion to a Pulp Cthulhu adventure in alternate-history 1930s New YorkContinue reading “My 2025 in RPGs”

Books I read in 2025

Last year, I kept track of how far I ran (miles), how much I wrote for fun/free (words), how much time I spent playing RPGs with friends (hours), and how many books I read. In order from last January. Asterisked listings are books I had read before – multiple times in some cases. 1. EveryContinue reading “Books I read in 2025”

My 2025 in Running

As I did in in 2024, last year I tracked my running (in miles), my personal writing (by word count), how many hours I spent playing RPGs with friends, and how many books I read. In 2025, I covered about 370.7 miles, which is significantly more than the year before (264 miles), and got meContinue reading “My 2025 in Running”

“The Legacy of Mo’Roh” – Live on Kickstarter!

I’ve written before about my friend Matt Kish’s art, and now I’m incredibly proud to say he granted permission to use some of his fantastic “A Radiant Bestiary” works in a short, system-neutral tabletop role-playing game adventure, “The Legacy of Mo’Roh.” His art is fully the inspiration behind me writing this adventure, which I thenContinue reading ““The Legacy of Mo’Roh” – Live on Kickstarter!”

Rally Point Productions: Casting & Fundraising for “I’m Gonna Marry You, Tobey Maguire”

My daughter Kelsey and the rest of the Rally Point Productions team are fundraising for their next show, “I’m Gonna Marry You, Tobey Maguire.” Learn more their Indiegogo page. Here’s a quote: About Rally Point: If you are just meeting us for the first time: Hello! We are a new(ish) small theatre company based inContinue reading “Rally Point Productions: Casting & Fundraising for “I’m Gonna Marry You, Tobey Maguire””

Akron Children’s Foundation – Make Every Moment Count

This was a big project with a lot of different pieces and writing needs, and I’m proud to have been a part of the team that made it happen: https://www.akronchildrens.org/Make-Every-Moment-Count.html

My First Published RPG Credits!

Almost three years ago, I got back from Gary Con and wrote this post about role-playing games and a personal realization about recognizing them as creatively productive. Today I’m packing for this year’s Gary Con trip and smiling at these photos from my friend Alex at Forge of Ice, because Alex’s “The Twin Heads ofContinue reading “My First Published RPG Credits!”

“Moby-Dick in Pictures” by Matt Kish

Matt Kish once owned the coolest suit jacket ever and he’s such an amazing human that he let me borrow it for a prom date. Most of two decades later, he created 552 artworks – one per day for a year and a half! – each inspired by a single page in a particular editionContinue reading ““Moby-Dick in Pictures” by Matt Kish”

Remembering the Disney-MGM Studios

I had lived in Orlando for about eight months when I got a job at the Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park in November of 1993. My official hire date was actually my twenty-third birthday. Wanting to work at Walt Disney World was one of the reasons I moved to Florida in the first place (they weren’tContinue reading “Remembering the Disney-MGM Studios”