Akana

Hi. This is Pivosh, aka Jen.  I am 54 and currently work at home taking care of Vuka and Tashi, our Shiba Inu, and Dozer and Carmen our cats.

I'm originally from Baltimore, Maryland and worked for many years for my father's law firm prior to his passing.   I can also proudly say that for a period of time I was an employed artist for a monument company, designing and creating headstones!  This is what led to my fascination with genealogy.  Luckily, Vuka doesn't get upset when I ask him to pull over into a cemetery!

 I have two children and two step children, Celeste and Kyle, with my husband, Vuka.

My eldest, Jake, is a traveling Rennie and a self published novelist. He is currently working the Arizona Renaissance Festival and should be moving on to Oklahoma next. 

My youngest, Alain, is a published and traveling spoken word poet who is non binary and uses the pronouns they/them.  You can see them perform here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8U5223Bgv8

Needless to say, I'm obviously proud of them.  None of us live in the same state currently as we are representing, Arizona, South Carolina, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Vuka and I met in the Sinking Sands in EQ2 10 years ago and maintained a long distance relationship while our children were completing high school.  We finally moved together in 2014 and got married in Vegas in August when we went to the last SOELive Convention.  We didn't get married at the convention nor was Elvis in the vicinity! We got married by the Las Vegas Wedding Wagon who actually meet you wherever you want to get married and they perform the service.  We chose to get married at the fountain garden in front of Cesar's Palace at 9pm.  As crowded as the strip gets, we actually had a quiet secluded romantic spot to ourselves 

I played Everquest for so long I can honestly say that it took me a good year or so to go through withdrawal symptoms.  I loved raiding up to the point that Vuka and I were in a raid guild with a very angry raid leader.  We still joke about "take a break and drink some bleach because you all …" He definitely could have benefited from some meditation therapy!

Over the years, what we have come to enjoy is the journey of the game.  It's more enjoyable to me when the team is trying to figure out how to work a strategy together regardless of the number of times it takes.  It's no longer about being top of the leaderboards, World first, "in before the nerf".

Gaming for me now, is enjoying my time, meeting great people, having a laugh, accomplishing goals even if it takes more than one try.