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...

what does an average middleclass person in the developed world have to really fight for? stand up for? do capital-S Something about? plenty ...

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

over the past few months I've been devouring audiobooks on the weekends. I basically listened to Stardust in one long stretch on a Sunda...

the word semester shows up in at least 130 of my past blogposts , which is a little more than 10% of all the posts I've thus far posted...

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...

last week, my time was taken up by another academic conference. I presented on semi-academic podcasts and how awesomely they seem to cultiva...

almost six months ago, my attention was drawn to all the conflict in Palestine more than it ever had been before. a house down the road from...

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...

opening match 2: Dungeons & Dragons 5e vs Werewolf: the Forsaken I had thought to write up Pathfinder 2e vs Mage: the Awakening as matc...

seasons of 90 days each. seems like plenty of time. one quarter of a full circle, fair time for each mood of the year. what was I wanting to...

one of my many indulgences this summer was the game Horizon: Forbidden West . I loved the first Horizon game when I played and replayed it s...

as promised, I have written up and organized many, many, many photos for a full stand-alone page chronicling my adventures (so far) with thi...