As you know, we recently spent a week in Ohio for Origins Game Fair. When attending a convention like C2E2, Gen Con or Comic-Con, you can do things at your own leisure and on your own schedule. However, when attending professionally – ...
During our first family visit to New York several years ago, Scott decided to take the girls to see a Broadway performance while I was attending a conference. At the recommendation of the ticket salesperson, Scott opted for Matilda by Roald ...
In the course of my adulthood, there are few things I’ve heard my brother rave about. His life revolves around work and family. But there’s one thing he used to look forward to each week and would go on endlessly about: The X-Fi ...
First, a disclaimer. Today’s game feature is not entitled “The Legend of the Cherry Tree”. It has a much longer name, “The Legend of the Cherry Tree that Blossoms Every Ten Years”. That mouthful was too long fo ...
We’ve spent the last six years on a journey to find a perfect smile. I’m not talking about board games, trips to Disney or enjoying a family cruise, although those do generate a lot of laughter and joy thus resulting in smiles. ...
People look forward to the decline of winter for a number of reasons. Warmer weather, school letting out, holidays, vacations and more. Now that we’re well past the days of the white stuff falling and just about out of allergy season, ...
As I began to type this, I was going to say that we’re a bit obsessed with Marvel. (Duh). And that we’re a bit obsessed with board games. (Again, duh.) But we’ve said it like a million times here and considering we talk ab ...
It’s no secret that one of my favorite card games growing up was War. A simple game played with a standard deck of cards, my brother and I would regularly go head-to-head on a rainy afternoon. We have talked about a number of card gam ...
Back in 1999 I caught wind of a new product being shown at the annual CES convention. There were a couple variations of what is now commonly known as a “DVR”, and when DirecTV began offering their TIVO-branded version shortly th ...
Like many families, we gather around the table during the holiday season and play a game or two with cousins, nieces and nephews we only see during this time of year. Most often it is a few rounds of Hearts or Spades, classic card games tha ...
