Tales under the cat tree
Duleepa Wijayawardhana
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S2E39 Ep39: Making concrete green with Kurre Stålberg
Every day we wake up and go about our business. Life changes—mostly imperceptibly, incrementally, crawling season after season. We accept new streets, new buses, and new buildings as normal. What…
S2E38 Ep38: Cultural code switching - A conversation with Sylvia and Erwin Warkentin
Have you noticed that you sometimes sound different or use different words when you talk to your parents? Or maybe you slip into specific expressions with people from the town you left behind so long…
S2E37 Ep37: Forbidden Lands and Svavelvinter with Erik Granström
On this episode, I feature the works of Erik Granström, a Swedish author and roleplaying game writer. We delve into fantasy, fantasy writing and the worlds he has created and their relation to our…
S2E36 36. On humanity's greatest art form with Seamus Heffernan
Sometimes the process of stringing words together starts to click and you find that you have written a story: Dragons fly off the pages burning hobbits, characters say the darndest things, and you…
S2E35 35. The Couch Murder on Long's Hill
There’s been a mystery I’ve been trying to solve for thirty years. What happened on New Year’s Eve 1994 at the house on Long’s Hill? Did a couch actually catch fire and hit a house? Were the police…
S2E34 34. Holiday Traditions from Canada to Finland
Whether you are hiding frozen cherries in couch cushions or singing at the top of your lungs there’s so many ways we make ourselves comfortable. I love this time of year even if it means long nights…
S2E33 33. The Royal Anarcho-Geographic Society of Newfoundland
When sun rays crown thy pine clad hills, And summer spreads her hand, When silvern voices tune thy rills, We love thee, smiling land. When spreads thy cloak of shimmering white, At winter’s stern…
S2E32 Ep. 32: The fragility of kingdoms and companies
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled…
S2E31 Ep. 31: 1980s Hong Kong through teenage eyes
Recently, I was cleaning an attic full of memories, cards, and letters. Amongst the items were letters that my friends, and even one teacher, had written to me right after I finished my A-Level exams…
S2E30 Ep. 30: The magic of story editing
I’ve talked about my fabulous writing group, “The Chapter Chasers,” in previous episodes. Many of the stories I feature or am submitting to various journals and competitions have been workshopped by…
S2E29 Ep. 29: BioWare Stories Part 3 - Dragons, Mako, Mounts and more
This episode is part 3 of my short series on BioWare. In this episode we interview Georg Zoeller and Emmanuel Lusinchi who were designers and more on Neverwinter Nights (Hordes of the Underdark),…
S2E29 Ep. 28: BioWare Stories Part 2 - The flood and shipping Jade Empire
This is part two of my interview with my colleague Craig Miller about our days at BioWare together. I strongly suggest you listen to Part 1 before listening to Part 2. While this episode still delves…
S2E27 Ep. 27: BioWare Stories Part 1 - Releasing the BioWare Community and Neverwinter Nights
Today’s episode is part one of two where I talk to my good friend and colleague Craig Miller about BioWare. Craig and I have now worked together for almost 25 years since we first met at BioWare.If…
S2E26 Ep. 26: Sigiriya (5th Century AD)
Sigiriya is a UNESCO World Heritage site from the 5th Century. Find out about King Kasyapa and this magnificent palace on top of a rock.Thanks to the following:* My colleague Viktor Djupsjöbacka* My…
S2E25 Ep. 25: Fighting the realities we create
Today’s episode is all about empathy and the realities we create and then live in. Listen to a voice-acted story that I wrote called “Watching the wheels” and come with me on questioning how we…
S2E24 Ep. 24: The Bride Price and criticism
In Episode 24, we wander around Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea in the early 1980s and drop into an unusual wedding in the highlands where modernity meets tradition.I invite Dr. Erwin Warkentin,…
S2E23 Ep. 23: Role-playing games will change your life!
This is a two-part episode about roleplaying games and Dungeons and Dragons. This episode is a backgrounder on roleplaying games and how they could possibly change your life. And certainly, how they…
S1E22 Ep. 22: (Update) The Shortcut and Enlightened Migration
An updated version of Episode 6 included an interview with Riikka Loisamo, CEO of The Shortcut.The interview is followed by my own immigrant story and some singing!Links:* Visit The Shortcut in…
Ep. 21: The "Cheater" Episode
When I was growing up in the 1980s in Hong Kong, we only had four television channels. Of these, two were in English—ATV and TVB. My father refused to buy a VHS player, his reasoning being that I…
S1E20 Ep. 20: Flash!
Today’s episode also features the flash fiction story “Sullivan’s Choice”My name is not DaveDave was born bawling. He didn't really like what he saw when he popped out into the light. "Rather…
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