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Rock Band, making marriages stronger

Rock Band, making marriages stronger

I love video games. I always have, and I always will. My wife, while not a big player of games, still (thankfully) enjoys watching me play. Not all games, mind you. She doesn’t care for games that are nothing but running and gunning, games that are all violence and no story. When I want to [...]

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I think I’m working off a past-life karmic debt

As you will recall, my wife had a seizure last week. It was the scariest moment of my life, but luckily she’s been okay since then and hasn’t had any other sort of issue (we see a neurologist in a couple of weeks, so cross your fingers for her). So, things had been looking up! [...]

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Not a good day…

Today was probably the worst day of my life. Let me share it with you. It started off like any other day, as you would imagine the worst days to do. I was fine, my wife Krista was fine, our brood of pets were good, we still had jobs, and the roof over our heads [...]

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My life, as it is, at this moment in time…

A quick update on my life… Let’s see. Today I finished chapter seven on my novel, “King’s Knight.” That brings the word count to 32,427, which is approximately a third the way to my goal. Originally I’d intended the chapter to start off one way and then end with a big event (that was how [...]

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Brian K. Vaughan, thanks for all the word balloons

Brian K. Vaughan, thanks for all the word balloons

Lately I’ve been on a Brian K. Vaughan binge. My first experience with his writing was through his Marvel series “Runaways,” which is about a reluctant team of teenage superheroes in L.A. Great stuff, but I think the only reason I started reading it was because I knew Joss Whedon was taking the book over. [...]

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