Author Archives: Meg

Instagram

I’m really enjoying taking more photos, playing around with Instagram and Pixlr, and finding a good one to post here every week. It’s a good mental practice to keep my eyes open for small details of everyday life that are … Continue reading

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Still Life With Alcohol

Lifehack: Eat small portions of diet food all day, so that you take one sip of the house cocktail, and are immediately hammered.

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The First Hero: Saving the World on a Grecian Urn

The First Hero, from BeGamer, is a short point-and-click adventure about a young champion on a Greek urn, I mean, a young champion in mythical Greece. You’re not, as far as I could tell, any particular mythological hero, just a young champion … Continue reading

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At IndieCade, Part 2

I ran into Nate, and then he ran into one of his friends, and introduced me. “Oh, is your last name Stivison?” Nate’s friend asked. “Yeah, it is.” “You reviewed my game!” I’m always so terribly nervous when that happens, and I was … Continue reading

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At IndieCade

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Not All YouTubers

Part of my work involves creating video content, managing the creation of video content from others, and building a friendly fan community around games, all for students ages 8-14. Sometimes, working on gaming videos really highlights how inappropriate and angry YouTube gamer culture can be. It ranges … Continue reading

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Chestnut Street

This is Maeve Binchy’s last book, Chestnut Street. It’s a collection of short stories, most of which I read about an hour after I got it, but there are a couple left and I really don’t want to read them … Continue reading

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MyFitnessJerk And The Constant Error Message

I’ve started using MyFitnessPal, an app to track food and exercise. I’m aiming to lose about 5 pounds before summer, but more importantly, I want to make sure my stressful-day fries and my just-this-once candy don’t become everyday food. The process of recording my … Continue reading

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My Top Books of 2014

So, this was blatantly stolen from Alice at Reading Rambo, who stole it from Emily at As the Crowe Flies (and Reads). Although, I only answered the questions I felt like answering, and I waited until weeks into 2015 to do so, because you … Continue reading

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With Those We Love Alive

his is a screenshot, of sorts, from Porpentine’s With Those We Love Alive.  I discovered this game through friends on social media sharing photos of their own symbols. I immediately wanted to play it, but put it off until I … Continue reading

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