Logophilia
I love words. This probably comes as no surprise, but I have taken delight in the scattered pieces of our language for as long as I can remember. Long we...
Category: thinking about stuff
A word: earnest
One of the things I love about our home is that my wife keeps an unabridged dictionary open on a stand in our living room. Whenever she looks up a word whi...
Dismissing the Code
My younger brother and I stayed up late the other night, discussing a range of topics, and the subject of The Da Vinci Code came up. It was a very earnest...
Pump-action
Tonight I have the intense desire to wield a pump-action shotgun. Not that I have any violent intentions toward anyone. I just want to feel the heft of the ...
In defense of role playing
Role-playing is my primary venue for fictional creativity. I find in the collaborative storytelling of the table a freeing outlet for imagina...