Fall officially came crashing in over the weekend, and I’m missing the summer already. I like warm weather, barbecues, having the kids home from school, going to conventions, and all the other hallmarks of the summer months. One of the best memories I haven’t written much about is the week or so I spent with my wife and kids at …

Brant Guillory writes: Hey there! Back in the Spring, you guys graciously helped get the word out about the GAMA-Wargamer-Ohio State games research survey. I’m happy to report the first of the non-academic articles is now available at Wargamer.com. Thanks. Take everything you read anywhere with a shaker of salt, of course, but this shows some intriguing results.

As I mentioned a while back, the fine people at Rockford Memorial Hospital asked to feature our family in an advertorial they placed in the Midwestern edition of US News & World Report. The ad ran in the July 17 issue, I believe. For those of you who don’t live around here or missed that issue, though, the hospital has …

I just spent a week in a cabin on a lake near beautiful and remote Watersmeet, Michigan. The cabin just got electricity in a few years back, and this year marked the introduction of a pump to bring unheated washing (but not drinking) water up from the lake. There are no phones and no internet access. It’s a slice of …

Although I haven’t seen it yet, I’m told last week’s US News & World Report contains an advertorial for Rockford Memorial Hospital. It features a story, with photos, about our family and the fantastic experiences we had with the hospital before, during, and after the birth of our quadruplets four years ago. As I’ve said before, we rarely do any …

Here’s wishing a happy Fourth of July to everyone out there, particularly if you’re in the USA or an American abroad. May your evening be filled with fireworks!

Four years ago today, my wife Ann did the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen. (Just one more reason why she’s my hero.) She gave birth to four children all at once. Patrick, Nicholas, Kenneth, and Helen came into the world fighting for every breath. Three of them had to be intubated to get them any air at all. Born …

We just had a photographer in here from Rockford Memorial Hospital. They’re going to place an advertorial in an upcoming issue of US News & World Report, and they chose our kids as their subject. We completed an interview with their writer last week, and the photos will help illustrate that piece. The quads were born at RMH almost four …

I met Jeph Loeb several years back, when I was working on the WildStorms Collectible Card Game for WildStorm Productions (which was then part of Image Comics but is now owned by DC). We played in Jim Lee’s annual poker game at Comic-Con International, and I got cleaned out quick. I saw him again at the same convention in 2004, …