I grew up in a family of health and alternative medicine practitioners. So it shouldn't have come as too much of a surprise when, after bouncing from school to school for several years, I finally found my vocation as a massage therapist and holistic healer.
Aside from my professional life, I have wide ranging interests and a fascination with learning. Within the past year I have spent time studying: quantum physics, molecular biology, Shakespeare, Eastern philosophy, tabletop role-playing, gardening, tea, and psychology. My current obsession is role playing games.
My passion is ...
helping people.
I know too much about ...
very little, but a little bit about just about everything.
My parents always told me ...
that I wasn't trying hard enough.
My childhood ambition ...
marine biologist
My favorite memory ...
holding my children while they slept.
Why I write ...
I have to.
My first job ...
gopher at my grandfather's company.
My best moment ...
when a client got off the massage table and told me she was happy.
My inspiration ...
life.
Commercially available table top role-playing games have been around for over 30 years, since Gary Gynax went public with his now famous Dungeons and Dragons. D&D was closely related to the war games that were popular at the time, and are still played today (my brother tried to get me involved in one recreating the Battle of the Bulge once. I was rather soundly defeated.) What are Role-Playing Games? A simple definition of table top role-playing games is that they are games of make-believe, where each participant makes up an imaginary character, and pretends to be that character while ...
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