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“I’ve been playing it for as long as I can remember,” he says.

When someone tells you they had “the strangest dream last night,” you are guaranteed a long, interesting, awkward, or really dull conversation.

“My guide suggested we flip the raft, and my entire group really wanted to. I had a lot of fun flipping it, but the water was really cold. Luckily, the sun was out.”

“I think this needs to be recognized because people don’t realize how much the Hispanic community has done for this country,” Ms. Pina said.

Regardless of the situation, “character is all you have,” Atkinson told us, and “you don’t want your character called into question.”

McKenzie said that she didn’t get nervous anymore, and she indeed seems to be in her element when she is on stage.

A once-simple canvas bag is now embroidered with the Great Wave of Kanagawa and a line of graceful black birds, frozen mid flight.

“I wasn’t glad at the time,” she said, “but it helped me become a cleaner person in general, and want things tidy.”

We checked in with a variety of Lovett community members, from a stressed out senior to an on-the-ball security guard, from Chef Kat in the cafe to a parent waiting in the carpool lane...

"It was really neat to see, one, the competitive nature, but also how fun it was across divisions... it's brought people together that normally don't see one another."

"I've gotten a little bit more poise now, hopefully, then when I started out," he admits. He has been able to maintain this due to his "great confidence in our community."

I've found Fortnite to be like a good book or a bag of chips. Once you start playing, it can be hard to stop, and I'm not the only one who's hooked.