Running With the Wild Horses

Recently, I had someone ask why I’m planning to move to the United Kingdom. Their sheer, morbid curiosity was very clear. It was also obvious that they would never dare such a venture, content to cower behind walls of comfort they built for themselves all their lives. My answer? I’m a wall-climber. I chip away at sections until I get fruitful results. I tear them down brick by brick. To assume I have no comfort zone is silly. I just have a strange drive to test that comfort zone and see how far I can go. Reckless? No, not really.

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A Final Good-bye and A Greater Resolve

There are situations in life that inspire you to do more than the norm. To push yourself beyond the boundaries you have set for yourself over years and decades of plain and simple living. For me, today was one of those times. Today, we said our final good-byes to my wonderful grandma Evelyn Patterson Morrow, who died on June 1, 2011 (which I also mentioned in the post for that day). It’s always hard to lose a family member, but for me the grandparents are the hardest of all. I guess you get used to having them in the world.

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Our Immortal Gleam

This day has been tainted with the loss of a very special and important person in my life, my grandma Evelyn Morrow. It was something that took a long moment to sink in. She passed away at two o’clock this morning. It wasn’t until about 11 am though that the realization finally took hold. After it did, though, I was surprised to find myself smiling. It struck me as very odd, especially in a time of tragedy such as this. But then I realized why I was smiling. I guess I was smiling because I still felt a connection to

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The New Layout is Online

Okay I know I said it would take up to June 3 to get the new layout online, but plans have a habit of not going how we planned them to go. In this case, that’s a good thing. With the new layout containing 20% more information consuming 60% less bandwidth, it’s been an amazing few months. Now that the site design is out there, I can concentrate on more pressing tasks, such as my writing. I have resumed work on my “High School Cast” project (the official name is under wraps until release) and I plan to have a

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Welcome to The Purple Dragon….

To go with a shiny, new layout comes a shiny new blog (that, and the old blog has long over lived its usefulness to me and my writing career). This, like most blogs, is the home of my rants, raves and other random (bodacious) posts. Here’s the lowdown: I’m fun. I enjoy my work (thoroughly). I enjoy everything about everything I do. It doesn’t matter what I write about, writing is my passion If that means sometimes I am a little strange, I welcome it. In fact, I’ll share a little fact about me right now: I’m strange. Anyway, as

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The Future of Video Games

The following article was originally published on ThatGaminSite on May 4, 2010. The entertainment industry has no plans to leave your living room anytime soon. The market for electronic games is expanding. Today’s games yield more realism than ever, which yields more fun, which yields more sales. But, what about tomorrow’s? What might an electronic game look like in the future after gaming has become a mainstream form of entertainment? What will the platform be like? What moral challenges will it present. Many have written about the future of gaming predicting which current hardware platform will prevail in the near

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Can Nintendo Win Their Hardcore Audience Back?

This following article was originally published in March of 2010 on That Gaming Site. Nintendo has long sought that new frontier of gamers – gamers who have never picked up a controller, who have never spent hours in front of a TV playing The Legend of Zelda or Super Smash Bros – but many of their longtime fans have struggled to stay faithful to the company and their new direction. The Nintendo DS and Wii did more than just usher in a new gaming generation. It changed the very idea of gaming. Later this year, with the release of Sony’s

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