Finding the path to the sincerity of an art
I realized some years ago that I had long preferred to not touch up my photos. I would sometimes need to–cropping is not uncommon to lop off bits distract...
Author: Reay
Isolation Day 294 Game: Unstable Unicorns
Following the unprecedented Kickstarter campaign success with Exploding Kittens, the same crew published Unstable Unicorns. Here, each player is trying to build...
Revisiting old good stuff, looking forward to new good stuff
Back in March of this year, I was bemoaning the fact that our Good Stuff jar was to that point sitting empty. And that was right at the start of what has become...
Top 10 favourite books of 2020
2020 was a terrible year in way too many respects, so it was a pleasure to be blessed with enough time to escape from it into books as often as I did. Despite t...
What I read this month
It was an unexpectedly bountiful month to wrap a banner year in reading. It certainly wasn’t without its passes and disappointments–five books start...
Top 10 favourite songs of 2020
To pair with my first year of keeping a song list–which includes every song my family and I added to our own various playlists through the year–I fi...
My 2020 song list
This year I decided to make a new playlist that was comprised of all of the songs I added in 2020 to other playlists. It didn’t matter if it was to my Sho...
Isolation Day 282 Game: Scooby-Doo! Betrayal at Mystery Mansion
The latest in our growing collection of games originally for older players that have been geared down for kids is this Scooby-Doo-ized version of Betrayal at Ho...
Next level wordplay
There are times I’m struck by unexpectedly gorgeous art, be it a photograph or illustration or painting, as well as other arts, like writing. I’m no...
Enjoy the road traveled
I recently had a minor epiphany. Or perhaps not so minor. My wife is a teacher and has regular report cards due, which is always a slog in the household: She...