A Gaming Life
This blog started back in March 2017 and has been a going concern (sometimes very concerned!) for over 8 years now. As my mental health has changed and my motivation has lagged sometimes, the post count has gone up and down, but I’ve consistently… Continue Reading “1000 Posts and Counting”
Sometimes you go on a journey and at the beginning you can’t even contemplate how far you will have travelled by the time you get to the end of it. Especially when the journey seems to be a never-ending, yet incredibly fulfilling, one. Today… Continue Reading “Dude Take Your Turn – 8 Years and Counting”
Happy New Year, everybody! I hope you had a safe and happy New Year’s Eve celebration last night, or at least just spent the changeover with your loved ones. Some of you may even have been asleep! As I did last year and for… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2024”
It’s Monday and 2024 is upon us, almost sneaking up on us like a wily coyote hunting a roadrunner. As is my tradition over the past 4 years or so, I wanted to do an update on how this blog, and my gaming, is… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2023”
It’s the new year and welcome to 2023! As has been my tradition for the past 3 years, here is my annual post about the year that was, 2022 in this case. Unlike last year, where I talked about how 2021 really should be… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2022”
As much as 2020 sucked for long periods of time (mainly due to COVID and the lockdowns/health issues that dominated the world), 2021 was predicted to be a year where things would start looking up. Vaccines for COVID were becoming available and people could… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2021”
I sometimes lose track of when I started this blog. Over the weekend, I realized that Saturday was the 4-year anniversary, with my first post going out on March 13, 2017. It was a review of a wonderful little game called World’s Fair 1893,… Continue Reading “4 Years and Counting”
Welcome to 2021! 2020 was a very hard year, not just as a boardgamer but as a person in general. The arrival of COVID-19 and extreme measures taken to counteract it have really taken a toll on me and Dude Take Your Turn in… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2020”
It’s Friday! You know what that means, right? That’s right, it’s roundup day! (Editor – You started this last week. People may not remember) This is the weekly post where I tell you about some cool people to check out. This week, instead of… Continue Reading “Friday Blog Roundup – 2/22/19”
One of the things I like about boardgame blogging is the community that builds up around it. I have “met” (virtually, for the most part, but not totally) a number of wonderful boardgaming people on Twitter and some on Facebook too. Indeed, somehow this… Continue Reading “Friday Blog Roundup – 2/14/19”