About me

Reference librarian, going on nine years, most of it spent at the same branch. I got into modern board games properly through a coworker's Dominion deck left out on a break-room table one slow afternoon, and I have not really stopped since. I read wide and a little stubbornly, literary fiction next to hard philosophy of mind next to development economics, usually whatever's stacked closest to the bed, and I tend to notice setup time and expansion creep in games the same instinctive way I notice call numbers.

I work the reference desk at the public library here in Burlington, nine years now, which means I spend my working hours helping other people find the right book and my evenings finally reading my own. My wife Renata and I have a standing two-player table most weeknights, board games more often than not, and our two kids are just old enough now that one of them has started asking to sit in on the easier ones. My sister still beats me at almost everything with a combat system in it, which I mostly blame on her having more free time than I do. I keep a paper list of what I've read and played taped inside a kitchen cabinet, not an app, mostly because I like crossing things off with an actual pen.

Where I am: Burlington, Vermont

Still taping the reading log back onto the cabinet door every few months. The tape gives out before the list does.

What's here

Book reviews, board game reviews, and personal essays. No schedule, no affiliate links, nothing sponsored. I write about a book or a game after I've actually finished it and have something to say, which is why the dates on here are irregular.