Getting Started I shared a story about how I started down the path of running a Dungeons and Dragons game for my son and his friends for the past 3 years. I mentioned in that story how it all started with an after school club with some of the High School students where I taught. Fast forward 6 years and one of those students is about to get married and he asked me to plan and run a D&D game for his bachelor party....
Like many my age — I spent countless hours in my friend’s basement, slinging polyhedral dice around a table, while characters like “Vince the Impaler” and “Grulach” stormed dungeons and towns looking for treasure. Most of the time we found trouble instead, but that’s beside the point. I am of course talking about the tabletop phenomenon known as Dungeons and Dragons. Dungeons and Dragons (or D&D) has been around since 1974, when it was designed and released by Gary Gygax as an alternative to tabletop miniature military games....
The Music That Helped Me Survive 2020 (and a look ahead) 2020 was weird. I know this isn’t a particularly “hot” take and probably could have gone without saying (but I already said it, soooo). Between a worldwide pandemic, natural disasters and political upheavals, we all found different ways to cope with the world around us. Me? Like I have done since I was about 13 or 14, I turned to music....