Let me tell you a bit about myself

I love to play board games and video games.

I love thinking, assessing, strategizing, rolling the dice, thinking again, and having fun. I have found that through play I get to know myself and those I play with. I learn about who I am in the decisions I make and I get to experiment with things that I would only do in the space of play. I love it so much that I have spent several years writing my dissertation on the importance of play in socio-political video games and their ability to impact people in ways that no other form of art can do.

I also love to think and write (hence the PhD). I love writing the way I love playing. In writing I learn who I am and what I think. I understand myself and others better. Writing slows down my thoughts and makes me pay attention to the nuances of the situation and the complexities of life. And because I’m both a mediator and an educator on conflict transformation, I pay close attention to forms of conflict and their affects and effects.

In the pages of this blog, I explore the sensations and attunements of conflict and power and the human need and desire for connection. I often write from the space of affect itself, from the place of a sensation: something that felt like something. I try to work through that something for myself by writing and thinking about it.

I hope it resonates with you or makes you feel something.