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"I found the motherload for the new year right here in Second Life. What is new for 2021? I do hope the new year brings lots of exciting adventures to you. I like to learn a new skill and hopefully this time I will actually complete it. Maybe make some more Second Life Videos or since this was a tip of a "friend" use Second Life as a teaching tool for my classroom. Who knows, it may be fun." Read more on the blog.

"So, 2020. That sort of happened, didn’t it? Yeah, what a bloody year to decide to try writing a retrospective post! But I’m nothing if not a stubborn git, and I’m determined to find as much good in this otherwise crappy year as I can. The personal, internal, RL processing is being done away from this blog, but here I can focus more on the SL side of things and bring you some of my favourite things from my digital life this year – both inworld and out." Read more on the blog.

". . . a year makes! Well, 2020 was an experience – in more than one sense! At times it has been very nice to have a safe Second Life to escape to, and here are some of my SL highlights from 2020:" Read more on the blog.

"I have been having a difficult time as of late for a variety of reasons, but the one person who always magically manages to put a smile on my face is Ara. She has been and continues to be the best breath of fresh air from everything I have become accustomed to." Read more on the blog.

""Miss Caroline Walker came to me a few days ago with a great idea:  to have a page that lists which mesh heads and bodies are currently available on the grid for free or as group gifts!  We get asked this question pretty often, and with designers being so generous these days, it’s nice to have a resource that will guide you. " Read more on the blog.

"While we may not all want to look back at 2020 in the Real World, doing so for my Second Life isn’t half as depressing. Looking at my previous posts over the last year I was actually busier than I thought. I did quite a bit of RP in SL Gor during first few months of  the year tracking down old friends," Read more on the blog.

"It’s that time of year again when content creators reflect on the year that has passed as we enter into that odd bit of time between Christmas and New Year. " Read more on the blog.

"One thing we can all agree on is 2020 has been a sh****r of a year with lock downs and covid pandemics and the cancelling of Christmas until it's safe to be with your nearest and dearest. However you spend the festive period i hope it's a good one." Read more on the blog.

"I know I am not the best photographer and photo editor. I know I need to get better at setting up my shots in world, as well as editing them afterwards. When I first started blogging and posting my photos from SL, I only did raw photography." Read more on the blog.

"I think we choose to celebrate darkness, madly and wildly, until it catches us deeply and seems unwilling to let us go. Once darkness has had you like that, you end up either celebrating it even more wildly, or retreating, as I have done, into a more peaceful world." Read more on the blog.

"For those that may not know, i had my (SL) daughter Fallon back at the end of the September. i’ve not ‘featured’ her here before now because she’s a Zooby, and i know some have conflicting views on that, and pregnancy in SL, and families in SL in general. But with the hype around the upcoming Zooby pregnancy body, i figured now would be a good time to let you in on another piece of my life, RL and SL." Read more on the blog.

"Today is the last day I am in Perth, Western Australia, concluding my 3 years long of a journey with a lot of downs but so many ups too. so at the very least, before I leave, I would like to share to you my journey of battling through depression this year today." Read more on the blog.

"You may ask what is Chrismukkah? Well, it is really very simple. It is kind of blending both holidays of Christmas and Hanukkah into one." Read more on the blog.

"Last week I talked about Christmas and how it is a difficult time of year for many people. I must confess something else to you, my dear reader, I forgot it’s not just “Christmas”. " Read more on the blog.

"I remember how magical the holidays seemed to be when I was younger. I wonder if the magic has dimmed these past few years because I have gotten older or because of how much the world has changed. There seems to be a bittersweet nostalgia when memories of past Christmases come to mind." Read more on the blog.

"I see many posts about how people are looking for new friends and new places to go and that makes me realize we all want to belong somewhere and feel like we are needed. Therefore, it makes sense that belonging is a basic human need, recognized by Maslow in his hierarchy of needs. Everyone wants to be loved, whether it’s by a spouse, partner, child, parent, pet, another relative, friend, colleague, or just a kind stranger who reaches out a helping hand. Being loved or feeling like you belong is an unconscious need that goes to the core of what it means to be human." Read more on the blog.

"I’ve now (at time of writing) reviewed and stayed in 16 Second Life hotels. Though I’ve never built anything in SL, that has given me some idea about what seems to work in making a Second LIfe resort a commercial, as well as a critical success.  I also have some insights from my RL work, which is travel-industry related. As a result, here’s some advice for anyone thinking of becoming a virtual hotelier:" Read more on the blog.

"You can’t tell what someone has been through in real life just by looking at them. You sure as hell can’t do that in Second Life. Yet, for some reason, people in SL tend to judge one another so much more harshly than they judge others in real life." Read more on the blog.

"For a time I did reviews of sims I visited. It was the original reason I started this blog. A sim I had done a review of wanted to be informed of all blog posts and pictures posted online. Even if the blog post only had a picture taken on the sim. They wanted to know." Read more on the blog.

"I logged into Second life to receive a greeting from Johan Neddings congratulating my on reaching my fourteen rezday – and I have to state that, but for his IM (And tweet, when I looked at Twitter!), the date honestly would not have registered with me at all." Read more on the blog.

"For a long time in Austria and some regions of Germany, particularly in Bavaria, St. Nicholas was the main character in the Christmas celebration. But he was not Santa Claus, and he arrived earlier – on the 6th of December. The tradition has it that on December 5th, children will leave a boot or shoe in front of their door and St. Nich will leave them some goodies if they were good and coal if they were bad. This is still being done all over Germany, however, nobody really gets any coal." Read more on the blog.

"Hey hey guys, I hope you had a wonderful day. I am having wonderful day myself. Today marks 862 days on hormones. And oh my god, since this dosage increase. The hormonal roller coaster was rough. That being said, I have been through it multiple times. So it was much easier, that and with the help of Jax. It made my life much easier. " Read more on the blog.

"Taking a walk back to the castle from a lovely day together at Hogsmeade, Blake had noticed someone played a small trick, leaving a bit of Mistletoe hanging from the tree with red ribbon. The night before laid a heavy sheet of white snow on the ground, making the ribbon easy to spot, for those who didn’t have their nose in a book." Read more on the blog.

"Today's post is all about the people of Torvaldsland, Vikings and all the Northern cultures who endure the harsh winters and jarring temperatures on Earth and other fictional worlds. Earth's most weather-resilient cultures have lived in these conditions for a number a centuries – special diets and survival skills to brave the elements are essential to these long-standing communities and the inspiration of so many role-players that take their storytelling seriously." Read more on the blog.

"Hi! I'm gonna start using this blog to start writing things up about the things I do in SecondLife." Read more on the blog.