by H.Osborne | Nov 20, 2022 | Chatter, Games
Modern American society (and others but I’ll stick to the waters I’m swimming in at the moment) makes it hard to be awkward. Growth and exploration include making mistakes. If you knew all the answers, if you had already felt all those emotions and knew all the “best”...
by H.Osborne | Nov 15, 2022 | Chatter
An active social media presence is considered a business requisite—and don’t you wonder how it got that way? Leaving that aside for just a second, watching thoughtful friends and acquaintances negotiate the hazards of social media has broadened and deepened my...
by H.Osborne | Nov 10, 2022 | Games
Lately, I’ve been visiting friendly local game stores (FLGSs). Bliss is a completely free hour in a game store with shelves and shelves of games: games I have played until the pieces are worn, games I crowd-funded, games on my birthday list, games I never heard of...
by H.Osborne | Oct 26, 2022 | Cypher, Games
Touch. It’s a familiar word, yet I found myself a few days ago confronted by it as by a stranger. I was looking for special abilities for a character design. “You must touch additional targets to protect them,” I read. For whatever reason, I reacted as if I had never...
by H.Osborne | Oct 12, 2022 | Cypher
We didn’t get much sleep last night. Moonlight streamed into the bedroom for hours. I love moonlight and we’ve gotten used to sleeping in a periodically bright bedroom (more or less). However, we have a dog. We trained him to sleep in a crate in our room. He learned...