“You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no telling where you might be swept off to”

Just a few years ago, when Pat was in high school, his neighbor invited him to go to downtown Chicago for the weekend and attend a Science Fiction convention. It didn’t matter that the PSAT test was that Saturday morning because his friend mentioned there might be a chance to see an episode from the latest Doctor Who season direct from the UK.

Pat did take a few years off from attending conventions, but when his daughter mentioned an interest in writing he knew where to take her and started coming back to cons. He then rediscovered the little group of people who sang all night for fun, and he tempted his wife to come to a con and introduced her to this community.

Since Pat doesn’t perform but he was in the room listening, and can usually follow directions, he started offering to help do setup and teardowns. And that’s where you will find him today – offering to help, encouraging others to share their talents, but mostly just listening to all the amazingly talented people who are part of this community.