Category: Armchair phillosophy

A short entry tonight, for my teaching day has left me super-tired and I’m up early to get at it again tomorrow. Longer entries this weekend, I promise.   But today, the new Hearthstone cards[…]

I had a really tough-to-shake nightmare last night, one that was so real that when I woke up– startled by my dog– I wasn’t certain at first that the dream  hadn’t happened. This doesn’t happen[…]

I picked up a new item recently. This: It’s a book called Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, a Dungeons and Dragons expansion. It shouldn’t seem surprising at all that I bought a new D&D book. I[…]

Here’s a story. A long time ago, in my early years of teaching, I used to have semi-frequent coffee chat sessions at a little cafe that is now gone from Richmond (replaced with better– shout[…]

Just an anecdote today as I slog once again through a tired, sick, but working day. Several years ago, when I was first teaching game design, I had a student who was desperate to get[…]

I was thinking a bit today about a piece I’ve been trying to revise into something that might see publication. It’s a sort of over-grown classroom activity with notes for fellow instructors. This one chunk[…]