We didn't take a lot of vacations when I was a kid. The money just wasn't there for a family of 5 living on 2 teacher's salaries. Somehow though my parents managed to save, probably over the course of a couple of years, for us to do a road trip across the country. In principle …
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Unless you're some weirdo who wakes up like a ball of energy, it's hard to get up in the morning. The alarm goes off, you hit snooze, 2 maybe 3 times before you finally drag your butt out of bed. Then groggily get ready for your day and spend most of the morning in a …
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It's 2019. This means we look to the new year to be better than the last and try to better ourselves, be more successful and live a happier life. There's nothing wrong with this, it's a good thing to want to be a better person. No one is the perfect version of themselves, because perfect …
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I've decided that my blog needs to have 2 separate sites. I write about my personal life, my childhood and tell personal stories, but I also write about my nerdy interests and movies. Because of this I've decided to separate the two so they each have their own unique home. They will both be posted …
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The other day wrote a post about why kids should play D&D, you can read it here. But something occurred to me. It's all very well and good to say they should play D&D but how do you get them to play D&D? Does it take some kind of magic to pry them away from …
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I've read comics for a long time. There are always periods where I'm out of the loop but the love of the characters was always there. That being said I was never very into Aquaman. He didn't seem to have much going on. This is partly due to my ignorance about the character. My knowledge …
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Yes it's cold outside. Yes it's almost Christmas. What better time than now to talk about summer at the pool. This will either be a complete tease to anyone who's landscape is covered in snow and ice or give you something to imagine and make you feel warm. Regardless it will most likely make you …
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When I was a kid I was pretty sensitive. That was before real life decided it was time to keep kicking me like it does everybody else. When we're children we see the world through a rosy lens. There's good and bad and we don't think about the grey areas where most of our adult …
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There was a time when playing Dungeons & Dragons was frowned upon. Whether it was being accused of promoting devil worship and murder or just the stigma of being too nerdy for anyone cool to play, it was on the edges of popular culture. Those who played it kept it secret or at least didn't …
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I played my first game of Dungeons & Dragons in 1999. I knew about it, had a vague idea what it was but I had never played before. Not really. There was a moment in elementary school when one of my friends tried to introduce it to a group of us with no idea how to …
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