In a past life, I was an Elizabethan-era Scottish lady. Sort of. For years, my husband and I played with the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). Members like to say that the SCA is all about re-creating the Middle Ages “as they should have been.” (There is no gender bias, for instance.) The period recreated runs roughly […]

When I had my World of Warcraft or Star Wars: The Old Republic blogs, I was greatly interested in my statistics. I knew next to nobody read them, but it was still exciting to keep a list of the countries from which random hits on my blog had come. (“Yes! Someone in Moldova visited my blog! […]