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This week at D&D Encounters Adventure League Living Forgotten Realms the Alkazam Adventuring Crew lead by DM Richard continued the ascent of Kelvin’s Cairn — to rescue a guide who had not returned. we found an abandoned dog sleed destroyed by assumed yeti’s and freed the dogs who ran back to Ten Towns–I cast sleep…

The kids and I did not make it to the Cheese Store to write out our resolutions on butcher paper with wax pencils–which is one of my favorite things in the worlds–and so my resolutions this year are likely not as grand: Answer the Phone Jog Write in Pencil

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a super fun & relatively short book from a time long since past in which novels were fun and playful experiments in the way words work. Very much recommended as a remembrance of things past. View all…

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann My rating: 4 of 5 stars Fantastic overview of the period. Lots of fun facts and social justice corrections to historical truths I learned as a kid. The stuff on South America was super great & I knew little. Always like learning about…

The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray My rating: 4 of 5 stars Lisa and I read this on Sunday mornings during 2020. It was an amazing experience–we stopped a lot and had conversations, which was nice. Lisa and I share general curiosity around most of these issues and the general…