The grandma you didn’t know you wanted
Hi all! I’m Dani and I write about all sorts of stuff from gaming to mental health and ADHD to getting older (I’m 56!). This blog is my place to write about whatever I damn well feel like writing about. I hope you find something you like!
Dani the Writer
I’ve always been a writer. Since I was young, I’ve always been writing something – short stories, poems, novels, essays. Writing is part of who I am. Even if I am only journaling. Some of it has been for publication and you can find lots of my stories on Amazon (much of it under a pen name but publicly you can find me under Dani Gibbings or Dani McGaw).
Blogging has been a big part of my writing. I was big into the whole passive income scene and started with a site called Writing Up. I wrote for Squidoo, HubPages, Bubblews, Medium, and more. I even had my own network of writing sites with a partner (Harlow-McGaw Media). RIP Michelle. And I’ve had tons of blogs. Too many to count.
Now, I exclusively write for myself. I write what I want, when I want. This blog is my catch all. I’ll be re-publishing some old content that has been removed from other sites. But I’ll be writing fresh content here, too.
Dani the Gamer
I started gaming when I was just a kid, like many of us did. But I started on an Intellivision game console. Most of you won’t remember that. It’s old. Like me. I played Astroids, some kid of snake game, and baseball. Baseball was very different on a game console back then!
In my early twenties, I played on my boyfriend’s Sega Genesis. The first Sega. We played Magic and Monsters, Sonic, and Mickey Mouse Castle.
Then I had kids. The boyfriend gamed. The kids gamed. I was too busy taking care of them all.
It wasn’t until I was in my 50’s that I got a Switch and started playing again. And then a Playstation 5. And then a Rog Ally. And then a Switch 2. You get the picture.
I don’t have kids at home anymore. I can spend my time how I want. I can spend my money how I want. And I choose to spend both of them gaming.