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This year is the 50th Anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons. Coincidentally, it is also the 40th Anniversary of Dragonlance which was first released at the GenCon game convention back when the convention was held at the University of Wisconsin – Parkside. This year, Laura and I will attending GenCon not only to celebrate Dragonlance but […]

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A lot of people did not like the 2015 Walt Disney Pictures film, “Tomorrowland.” Perhaps, I think, it is because it’s central message was that we have to take responsibility to do something about hope. In the film, there is a parallel reality called ‘Tomorrowland’. Originally a place of hope, inspiration and innovation — the […]

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Spiritual insight and inspiration often come when least expected … as it came to me in the form of two real Starlings as I built my lightsaber.

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Sid Meier's Civilization: A New Dawn board game is one of our family favorites. It just needed a little ... civilizing!

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Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman to Publish a New Series Based on Classic Dragonlance

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Down the years, Margaret and I have met countless others who have found in our words the strength to do hard things, the comfort to make it through the long nights or years, and the inspiration even to learn how to read.

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Three ways we can ease our pain. In early May of 1991, I was flying back home from a convention. I happened to be sitting next to a very nice African-american man. It was a fated encounter that has shaped my thinking ever since. Los Angeles was in the middle of riots over Rodney King […]

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Plague, Civil Unrest, Earthquakes … and a Few Blessings Along the Way With my website’s now reasonably stable for the first time in years and having just taken my first pain pill of the day, I thought it would be a good idea to let you know that … having so far survived this ongoing […]

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Last week, I was in Portsmouth, England on business. Thanks to the kindness of a business associate, I was able to escape the meetings and fulfill a nearly life-long desire to visit one of the greatest and most legendary warships of all time: Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson’s HMS Victory. When I was a boy, making models […]

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"Have you turned it off and on again?" -- Roy, 'The IT Crowd' I did not know that life had a reset button but now I can tell you that God is the one who gets to push it. My life changed one night when that button was pushed. Before that moment, I was an author, […]