In the past couple of summers, a friend and I have driven for a little over two hours to meet some other friends from St. Louis at a hotel for the weekend. No, it wasn’t one of those trips (get your minds out of the gutter). It’ ...
Something about raising kids that continues to fascinate me is how they see things through their eyes. For example, when I think of Chicago, the first things that comes to mind are the Chicago Cubs and Chicago Bears along with what used to ...
When our girls were younger, we loved going to the circus. This was back when Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus was still around and had their full compliment of animals in tow. Circuses are probably a thing of the past, but that ...
As the girls get older and we discuss their futures, I often reflect on what I once thought might be my career path. Believe it or not, the list included joining the military and becoming a lawyer. Ultimately, I ended up taking every busine ...
As of late we’ve been playing a lot of longer, more strategic games. They’ve run the gamut in theme and mechanics. From cooperative games like Pandemic: Fall of Rome to brain-burners like Lisboa, it isn’t unusual to see us ...
Like most of you, my fascination with games came from my childhood. Sitting around the coffee table with the family playing Boggle, Scrabble or Life was my favorite part of the week. Before we were introduced to mass-market board games, my ...
The topic of conversation as of late around our household has been about colleges. With our oldest beginning her junior year next autumn, she’s been instructed by the school counselors to begin tailoring her high school curriculum to ...
Many games made are variations on a classic. We’ve lost count of how many 4-in-a-row games there are and you can’t walk down the game aisle at the store without seeing some type of push-your-luck dice game. We’ve all playe ...
If there’s something this world needs, it is more games and more sushi. Sometimes being in the middle of the Midwest it can be difficult to get either. We’ve always focused on good games here on SahmReviews and have made a point ...
It’s been almost five years since we started attending a weekly game night gathering we discovered on Meetup. It is held at a local chiropractic college every Friday night and has anywhere from a dozen to 50+ in attendance depending u ...
