MiShirtGuy

Congratulations! My wife and I have been together for 14 years, and have been trying for years, and I’ll be 38 and she’ll be 40 this year and we are finally expecting our first in a few more months. The relief of everything being healthy and normal looking when people don’t think about how many pregnancies end in miscarriage is extraordinary. I wish you three the best :)

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I'm a former gamer, and former game industry insider. I'm curious, how do you feel about the stagnation and overall trend of game stores closing in America, and what that says about the future of traditional table top/ccg/miniature wargaming etc? Moreover, as a Retailer & Liquidator, I watched store after store die a slow death from it's own customer's turning on them through demanding discounts, or just going online for their gaming gear. I've always asserted that it's the community aspect of table top gaming that has kept it alive and well, and watching the network of stores dying over the years is disheartening to see, since it reduces the exposure to gain new gamers. Obviously video games has taken their chunk of the market, but with Magic The Gathering still going strong, and other games more popular than ever, where do you see the game industry going since the foot soldiers of gaming, the stores, are growing less and less each year? Thank you for your thoughts, and I look forward to reading your book. If you wouldn't mind, please PM me information regarding how I can carry it in my store for my customers to purchase :)

Edit: Grammar.

I thought it worth mentioning that it sounds as if you we're predisposed to not wanting to read this book, and came in with a Pre-conceived notion of how it would object to your sensibilities. It's not uncommon for this to happen. If you aren't interested in the subject matter, or don't want to hear about it, you're bound to be biased against it. A lot of this happens in school or college, you're forced to read something you don't want to read. For example, I was forced to read things like Shakesphere, or books like the Grapes of Wrath, all of which I wasn't interested in, and didn't enjoy. I did the reading, got my A grade, and moved on. I've never gone back to classic literature not do I care for it because it does nothing for me. However, I do recognize that they are literary treasures that are to be preserved and passed down to generations, not talk about what bad authors they were. Likewise, with Nickel and Dimed, I think it's important to recognize the value of the subject matter, and the real lessons that we can learn through her journalism (because there is no such thing as unbiased journalism).

500 MILLION donated to help Haiti and only a handful of houses were rebuilt after 5 years?!?! Please! It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to deduce that the Red Cross grossly misappropriated funds.

https://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-red-cross-500-million-in-haiti-relief