Category: An Accidental Podcaster

You can usually tell my frame of mind by a combination of two things: whether I'm stuck in my writing, and whether or not I'm behind in my issues of mental_floss. Snags on one or the other from time to time aren't cause for being overly concerned - everyone has a busy spell from time… Continue reading Chipping the Block

A long time ago, I came across an old proverb which has since turned into a sort of personal mantra: Those who tell the stories rule the world. It's a powerful idea, and a truthful one. Shane Snow did an amazing TEDx talk on this in 2014 where he talks about the reasons why storytelling is so… Continue reading Tell A Good Story

The scene is a late summer afternoon in 1991. I am seven years old, standing in my grandparents' living room and feeling rather pleased with myself, even though I am in trouble. On my feet are my brand-new school shoes, shoes that we had to visit a half a dozen stores to find because I… Continue reading Learning To Dance

In my hometown in Pennsylvania, on a ridge overlooking the main boulevard, sits a copse of ancient pines that block the glare of the city lights from the old mansions sitting above. Positioned between the auxiliary parking used by the local college campus to its north and just off of a well-used sidewalk to the… Continue reading Walls

A few weeks back, Vampy and Velvet invited a group of RCM staffers for a special episode of their Saturday afternoon game stream Chaos Will Ensue. As I stated in my last post, some of RCM's cultural values center around responsibility, hard work, a willingness to be helpful whenever possible, and giving back to our… Continue reading Little Things

Holy crap. RivalCon is now a real thing. This has been the predominant thought running through my head for the past few days. Something that started off as a joke in Teamspeak (as all my favorite Rival projects do) and then worked its way into a sketch in the Magic Notebook is now coming to… Continue reading Save The Date

The most common and consistent word used to describe me is and has always been "organized," usually with some superlative added to the beginning to denote the heightened nature of the description. It's one of those observations that transcends time and social groups to the point of my actually taking notice. "Funny," "hard-working," "sweet," "dedicated,"… Continue reading Roll With It

I received an interesting gift today. When I logged in to start my work today, I received an almost immediate message from a friend. The note read that because he didn't have a tree on which to hang the ornament I'd sent him a few weeks before, he decided to take a walk and find… Continue reading Presents