Baldur’s Gate II Made Us Look Like Chumps…TWICE–wait, maybe THREE times!

“Fool me once, shame on you… Fool me twice, shame on me.”
In November of 2002, Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance was released for the Gamecube.  Jer and I were living together in geeky video game-playing splendor, and we picked up a copy of it to see if I liked the RPG style & co-op mode it [...]

Who knew?

Going through Amazon and this book showed up in my recommendations:
 
We needed this genre extended beyond “Everyone goes to the potty?”  There were whole groups of kids out there thinking that doctors, teachers, lawyers, bus drivers all go to the potty, but not firefighters–no WAY can firefighters need to potty.
I mean, doesn’t the whole handling [...]

When Blahs Attack

Lack of sleep never does me good anymore.
There was a time when I was propelled to higher levels of consciousness and being by depriving myself of sleep for 36-48 hours.  Designs would flow like liquid gold from my sketching fingers, words would pour out the moment pen was set to paper or fingers to keyboard, [...]

The Girl: A Mother’s Tale of Horror

The Girl is a bit taller than The Boy.  She’s got an open and honest face, a cute, genuine smile and big brown eyes.  The Girl is a bit older than The Boy, but they are in the same class at school.  The Girl lives in the apartment upstairs.
I noticed her first when she would [...]

Cross-Gender Friendships

Recently I got into a discussion about male-female friendships and whether or not they are possible without some basis in attraction on one side or the other.  The theme of this discussion is not a new or novel topic–many people know and reference the When Harry Met Sally argument as a definitive source for their [...]