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...

if only I had known about Audio Flux when the semester began, it would've been great to challenge students to meet the circuit 7 criter...

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...

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 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...

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...

sometimes I bike to the pool at our community center. it's one mile away, down the road and around the corner.  are all the HOA fees (th...

the Bradshaw mountains to the south.  summer, unfinished.

last month I got to attend the 2022 Computers & Writing conference, hosted on the charming East Carolina University campus. this year, i...

last week, real horses: this week, fantasy machine horses in Horizon: Forbidden West . { not my photo, but we can pretend }

I love being barefoot. I love the feeling of clean carpet or tile or concrete under my feet. love walking on cool grass or warm sand or slic...

the stars in the winter seem brighter, or shinier, or at least more , possibly because there is more night for them to shine in. yesterday, ...

I am in between roadtrips at the moment. tomorrow we set off east, north, to the cold windy scapes of Chicagoland. I hope the trip is smooth...

thinking about going places. far away places. nearby places have their charm... but running errands is mostly tiring; walking the dog is l...