Other Long-Form Writing

How-To Articles:

How to Make a Break-Even Analysis in Microsoft Excel - I wrote this for a class on creating a business. Many of the students were not tech savvy, so I included detailed screenshots and step-by-step instructions for the process. I chose Excel because the experience is easy to transfer to similar programs like Google Sheets.

A Beginner’s Guide to Character Creation in Dungeons & Dragons 5th Ed - Character creation is a complex process. The volume of rules can be overwhelming and using the default method can result in going back to resolve issues resulting from player choice. To eliminate these known issues, I reordered the steps to eliminate backtracking and present first-time players with the more-intuitive and easier-to-change steps at the beginning.

Interesting Moments in History:

War, Revolution and Tsarine: How Russia Shaped Champagne - I bet you didn’t know that champagne owes its current form in part to an all-or-nothing gamble hinging on the end of Napoleon’s war with Russa.

How Some Noblemen, a Train and a Louse Helped Rioja Become a Global Superstar - Rioja is well known today, but that wasn’t always the case.

Humor:

The Simple Trick My Wife and I Used to Pay Off $60,000 of Student Loans in One Year - I wrote this as a response to the enormous number of Simple Trick articles with solutions that, while indeed simple, are not easy or are impractical for the people reading them.