Okay. I’ll admit it. There have been a handful of occasions in the last four years or so when I have had the luxury of time to play video games. Maybe two handfuls. And I needed plenty of time because I have a steep learning curve with such games as Call of Duty and Halo:…
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It’s Your Move
There are images floating around the Internet and our collective consciousness of families sitting at the kitchen table playing board games. I’m sure you’ve seen these images. Many of them come from a time before color was invented, back when the entire world existed only in shades of gray, in a mythical time when only…
In the Spirit of March Into Literacy Month, Part 1
I love to read (almost as much as I love to write). Books, magazines, newspapers, websites, blogs, my friends’ Facebook posts—it doesn’t matter. Yet the quality and quantity of these disparate types of writing leave me with an almost inescapable feeling of disconnection. When I finally sit down on a Sunday night and slip forty pages…