Two years later and counting…

Good old Facebook—if you use the basic settings, Facebook will remind you of everything that happened on a certain date in a certain year. Most of the time, they're not things that you always want to remember. There was a one-year series of about five or six shows on the Peacock network called *Swedish Death …

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Here We Go Again: The Grief I Didn’t Plan For

After logging out of the Wasteland today to deal with the glitchy mess that is real life (yes even life has as many weird resets as Fallout76), I started thinking again about the weird ways grief works. Specifically, my own particular flavor of widowhood and how it stacks up against the experiences of others. I …

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Here We Go Again: Fallout, Failure, and Figuring It Out

As anyone who knows me well will tell you, I’ve been knee-deep in Fallout 76 lately. It’s the most current version of the series, and while it has its flaws, it also offers ongoing development, which keeps it engaging. Occasionally I jump back into one of the older games—nostalgia’s a hell of a drug—but right …

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Things You Don’t Talk About: Part 1 — The Cycle

Things You Don’t Talk About: Part 1 — The Cycle So, here we are again—me, wandering off from the “series on change” I said I was doing. At this point, it’s become a bit of a running joke (mostly in my own head) that every time I sit down to write about one thing, ten …

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