I may have said in a previous entry that my first encounter with pen-and-paper role-playing games was with BattleTech when I was at Asbury in 199X. That’s not exactly true. I neglected to mention the actual very first PnP RPG I ever played: The DragonRaid Adventure Learning System. DragonRaid was a “Christian” role-playing game. Basically, …

This isn’t very significant, but I wanted to mention it because I find it somewhat memorable. I didn’t even really have a crush on this girl, but it is an instance where she and I seemed to have a bit of chemistry that I wasn’t willing to acknowledge. Her name was Alicia, and she worked …

I dreamed that I was infected with some kind of parasite. There was a little line on my arm, and a little string poking out. I grabbed it and pulled it and it ripped upward out of my skin like pulling an electrical wire out of a wall, all the way to the tip of …

This is a thought I had a long time ago, when I was in a more Spiritual frame of mind. I guess it’s really an oxymoron and completely, absolutely wrong, because Solipsism consists of living entirely inside your head and believing that nothing else is real – but Materialism consists of examining the outside world …

[Editor’s Note: Of all the entries in this journal, this very one is the one most likely to foster mockery and censure. I struggled with including it, thinking perhaps the ramifications for a negative outcome were too great. However, I reject those notions. I feel it has a lot to say about the pernicious effects …

Now I would like to talk about the biggest events of the year at my humble little Baptist school: State and International Conventions. Basically, all of the Christian schools in the state of Kentucky would gather at some rural location to compete in events ranging from sports like Basketball and Archery to more intellectual events …