In a year and half filled with dispiriting news and developments, sometimes the world whispers in your ear that not all is destined for despair. Some of you may recall a post about my miniatures gaming guru Mar Rosquites from April 2020. It was a tribute to a friend out in San Francisco that I thought I had in all likelihood lost forever. As I recounted in that post, communications with Mar had ended abruptly, with the months of silence eventually broken by a cousin who contacted me to say that Mar had had a "stroke" and had lost much of his vision. I came to learn later the reality was even worse. He had suffered from an undiagnosed heart condition that led to an aortic dissection, better described as a simultaneous stroke and heart attack in terms of how deadly and ravaging to the body it is. Most people die from the rapid internal bleeding from this literal tear that spontaneously occurs in the heart, as was the case with John Ritter back in 2003 at age 54. ...
A Tabletop Field Marshal's Campaign Journal