Lately Roger needed to bully me out of bed to get me to gigs. I was often very sarcastic about the music the band members wanted to play, and Doug had to come to my rescue a couple of times when Roger and I nearly came to blows over the musical direction of the group. I kept pu...
Scrabble Crossword puzzles and word searches. Although you could easily purchase these books, why notmake your own printable word searchor crossword puzzles easily online? Customize a puzzle on what interests your family: sports, the latest movie, a favorite television show, a hobby, or an upco...
The heavens open and the debate begins. It's a rainy day. Do you reach for Monopoly, Scrabble or Canada's own Trivial Pursuit? Maybe cards are your thing. Do you deal a hand of poker? Or is your style more Euchre or Cribbage? When you get bored of all that, there's always that...
My most favorite part of reading time, though, is when we read to ourselves. There’s something especially cozy about being together but doing different things—it makes me think of toddlers absorbed in parallel play, aware of each other but immersed in their own experience. This is the good...
In 1939, Butts happened to meet a man called Jim Brunot who showed an interest in the new game. The two men worked together on developing the game and in 1948 it was offered for sale in the United States under its new name —‘Scrabble’.At first, it didn't sell very well. In ...
Piles of ponderosa pine needles underneath didn’t help with the traction. Yucca leaves stabbed through my pants. The slope was steep enough in places that it felt more comfortable to scrabble upwards in a crawl. (I have more photos of this climb, but I was last in the climbing line, ...
Grumbling, he scrabbled for his pants, only to slam his hand against something hard and metal. "Mother fucker!" Rolling over in their bed, his consort turned to face him, sunlight caressing her face and illuminating a single, full breast. "Hmm. Not quite my love. Come back to bed." ...
I browsed (again) over lovely pictures sent by my niece Karen Melodee Isaguirre, memorabilia of my recent fun vacation with my big extended family in the Philippines. I chose one picture that I share here in my Easter greeting, one that makes me think of Easter in the context of God’...
Who are you? It’s a holiday week and none of us arereallyworking so I made this to distract us even more. Yay for distractions!
We were given travel Monopoly, travel Scrabble and travel chess, they were too small and fiddly and had too many tiny pieces to blow away or fall. I’d recommend avoiding those, go with the best travel card games instead, perfect low cost, simple, family gift ideas or stocking fillers. ...