I make games for my friends in my spare time, particularly interactive fiction or alternate reality games (I made a few of these as part of my previous career, too). I'm also interested in the history of cognitive training (it goes back a little farther than you might think), and have written on it for popular consumption. 

I'm not the first person in my family to get a doctorate -- that would be my grandmother, who also sent hundreds of letters to notable personalities asking for their support for foreign language education in schools. Many of them, including Edward Kennedy, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jonas Salk, wrote back. I've been working on digitizing the letters.

That same grandmother created a classroom learning game years before I was born -- a game I didn't know about until she passed away and I had already became a game designer. She published on it, too.