"Enjoy every sandwich."--Warren Zevon (2002) "No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main...

Proto-Traditional (ish) I'm a-flippin' and a-flappin', I'm a-fleepin' and a-floopin', I'm a-flippin'. I'm a-flappin'. I'm a...

A writer of some renown has said that no organism can be truly sane without dreaming. I have found for me, in my current circumstance,...

It's late spring and the garden sits, the year's work not yet begun. Rhubarb, and a patchy row of last year's onions in danger of...

The Rookery, Session 22 Recap The party is again in Waterdeep to take possession of the gem that they obtained from the crypt of Halathe...

Most people have a home A place where most of their family still is And many of their friends from high school still live Somewhere they...

I have cancer. I got the diagnosis last week: a stage 3 malignant melanoma on my scalp. I will start immunotherapy tomorrow. My plan is...

Me looking like I'm ok, but not actually being ok.

Bill Keel was my PhD advisor. He retired from formal teaching at the University of Alabama last year, and his wife Teri asked some of his...

Minimal signs of brain activity Sat outside with the pupalups And enjoyed the breeze, the blue, and the green

I found this message-in-a-bottle while looking back through some old writing. Seems apropos today. A little less than a year ago, I took...

my brain trying to start, over and over but only getting the consistent Rrr-Rrr-Rrr of the starter, the engine never catching. Makes me...

Me Just flying along Until, like the Hindenburg I was completely consumed within thirty seconds

my thoughts being the most slippery of fishes.

Me doing something very dangerous Trying to understand some new (to me) science

A bit of a mixed bag Had coffee with a friend in the morning And felt comfortable in my skin By quitting time (Probably earlier for me...

Me waking up at seven and thinking, "Well maybe I got away with it." I even told B: "I'm doing surprisingly well." Then, after fighting...

Sekhmet--the daughter of Re--was the lion-headed goddess of the Sun, fire, plague, healing, and re-birth (among other things.) She was...

Campaign Recap, The Rookery, Session 16 After Andira’s Rite of Consecration to the Raven Queen, Vasymma—the head priestess at the Raven...

Invocation of the Raven Queen Ancient goddess, greatly feared Maiden, Mother, and Crone all adhered Independent, cunning, and strong The...