Board games are good for the brain, obviously, but they’re good for the soul too. They draw people together, create friendly competition, ask for your attention, and reward you for your focus.
We game in our household year-round, but the snowed-in season has brought a flurry of opportunities to gather at the kitchen table with TVs [...]
Entries from February 2010
February 23, 2010
Winter Games: Passing time with kids, but without pixels
February 10, 2010
Where does creativity come from?
When I was co-writing Edgar & Ellen books for Star Farm Productions, we authors were meant to be a secret cabal writing under a pen name, and thus we kept our identities under wraps. Our work may have been unknown to the readership, but we were regularly on display for investors or potential business partners [...]
February 7, 2010
When catalogs were catalogs: Lessons in writing from the Hammacher vault
I wrote for the venerable oddball catalog Hammacher Schlemmer for oh, about a year and a half — but what a great year and a half. Because you’ll never write something nuttier than what you write for a venerable oddball catalog.
I created copy for fiber-optic snowman tree toppers, remote-control golf balls, transparent kayaks, sonic mosquito [...]
