I spent a little more than 48 hours in Flagstaff the other weekend. gorgeous weather. wonderful wool and fiber festival (even if my very  f...

I spent a week in California (mostly San Diego) earlier this month. we did lots of beautiful and silly and fun things. twenty years later, D...

the many instantiations of various spinning and weaving arts and crafts consume me. there remains no time for blogging. these are little t...

last weekend I joined a few fellow guild members to demonstrate and display various handcrafted fiber arts at the annual Prescott Highland G...

thinking about my grandmother lately, off and on, I sometimes puzzle over how close and also how distant she seems. her birthday is coming u...

eleven years ago, back at the very beginning of my academic career, I trekked 6 hours west from Lubbock, Texas, in my very old leper of a ca...

the final round : Dungeons & Dragons (5e) vs The One Ring (2e)   in the beginning, along with a lot of scribbly scattered notes and spr...

the semifinals :  The One Ring vs Vampire: the Masquerade (5e) and Star Wars: Force and Destiny vs Dungeons & Dragons (5e) initially,...

quarterfinals match 4: The One Ring vs A Song of Ice and Fire as much as the authors behind these two worlds may match each other for ambit...

quarterfinals match 3: World of Darkness vs Vampire: the Masquerade 5e since opening match 1 , our zombie-plagued World of Darkness chro...

quarterfinals match 2: 7th Sea 2e vs Star Wars: Force and Destiny if these two were movies or television shows, I would for sure pick 7th S...

here we are, at a midpoint in this somewhat random tournament of roleplaying games. in this post, I'll summarize the opening round match...

opening match #8: Shadowrun 5e vs A Song of Ice and Fire   this final opening round match-up review one has taken me a bunch of extra time ...