On Sunday nights, I play a game of D&D with my family. A friend who lives in a different part of the state is our online Dungeon Master.

On our first meeting, my friend asked us all to come up with visuals of our characters to represent them in miniature on the Roll20 website. No problem; my kid, a typical Gen Alpha…

This summer, my nephew came to visit me. He flew in from a different state to introduce me to his favorite video game, the now hit HBO series Last of Us. The purpose of the game, for those who are unfamiliar with it and have only encountered it as the TV series, is to help players come to understand there isn’t always a clear good guy and bad guy. Sometimes, people are just complicated, and individuals are not the sum of their various parts. And this, I admit, is summarizing it terribly…