Autumn Has Arrived, and Apparently I Am Now a Cider Magnate 🍎🍂


I am still clinging to my previous Premium Gift. Literally. Back in August, Linden Lab gave Premium members an entire outdoor camping collection, including a tent, sleeping bags, camping equipment and, most importantly, an absolutely enormous climbing rock that I promptly installed in the backyard of my Linden Ranch. It turned out to be both…

Nineteen Years in Second Life and Still Pretending I Know What I’m Doing


This morning, I received one of the few emails that doesn’t immediately make me wonder what subscription I’ve accidentally renewed. It was a friendly congratulations from Linden Lab, wishing me a happy 19th Rez Day. As if I needed reminding. Not that I had forgotten, of course. I absolutely knew. I was merely pretending to…

A Visit to Somewhere, Alphatribe Island


…Where My Sense of Reality Quietly Packed a Suitcase  There are places in Second Life that make perfect sense. A beach is a beach. A forest is a forest. A shopping region is where your Linden Dollars mysteriously disappear while you insist you were “just looking.” It also seems I’m developing a habit. Only a…