The ENnie award-winning RPG blog Gnome Stew is launching a new side project this year to encourage roleplayers to get out and play some new games: New Year, New Game (NYNG). The event’s goal is for game masters (GMs) around the world is to run a new game this year. The ...

I'm not usually one to make New Year's resolutions.  I am not naive enough to believe that I will actually keep them.  I lack the will power.  I am weak.  I am human.  But I have different motivations when it comes to parentin...

“Daddy, where’s my heart?” It’s Isaac, my four year-old. I can feel his breath on my face. I’m snoozing on the sofa, you see, after having been up with both children since half five. They’re not excited about the new year or anything; this is standard waking-up time for them. ...

This past year was, indeed, a strange and fascinating year.  There were so many stories that captured our hearts and others that made us say "WTF?"  From crazy weather to lousy economies, from Charlie Sheen to Chaz Bono, from Casey Anoth...

Across the calendar a line of Xs stand upon the dates that we have kissed goodbye. Each line an ending, a memory, and one step closer to hugging someone at the last possible minute. The year goes out with a bang, just as it arrived. It spends its last week ...

I’m alive. I haven’t left the building. Yes, there are cobwebs covered in icicles hanging on the hinges of Honea Express, but it’s not like I haven’t been busy. For example: My latest at DadCentric – One Foot in Front of the Other My latest at BabyCenter – 2011: This ...

I originally posted this video some weeks back. I was watching it again this morning and decided to edit a bit and repost for today as I could not have come up with anything better to say about the last year. How do we measure the last year? The last...

Our new Christmas Eve Bunte Teller tradition that we started this past Christmas to bring one of my wife's family's traditions into ours

The fireworks, the ball drop in Times Square, champagne and resolutions. Just a few things that come to mind when one thinks about the upcoming New Year’s Eve and New Year’s day festivities. There is so much anticipation, excitement, and a certain ...

‘Tis the season when red and green are the new black, and the “holiday spirit” permeates all things commercial and otherwise.  If you are politically correct, then almost all salutations, spoken, written, or otherwise are readily sprinkled with “HAPPY HOLIDAYS.”  If you are politically direct, then, at least this week, ...