Like a trip through the past

If I could go back and see myself as an adolescent, I would probably find him in an arcade. Aladdin’s Castle at White Oaks Mall is where I first caught video gaming fever, and if I had to put a date on it it would be around 1980. I eventually moved my video gaming to

A part of my youth

I spent some time this morning playing an Atari game that I picked up at a second hand store. It was a way of connecting to the kid that I once was. Video games were once a huge part of my life. I once spent hours upon hours playing Missile Command and Yars Revenge and

Some thoughts about video games

Image at http://www.chicagonow.com/inside-chicago-improv/files/2013/04/DK-print.png I’m not sure who made today Video Games day, but they sure got me where I used to live. Between spending all of my 8th grade graduation money on game cartridges for my Atari 2600 VCS, to shoveling all of the quarters (yes, unfortunately it was all of the quarters) that I made

On improving my verbs

I’m a big fan of verbs in language. They are the most essential of all words, because without them there is no language. “My dog” is not a sentence, in and of itself, but when “My dog goes for a walk,” that’s a sentence. People and things can’t just exist all by themselves, although “exist”

Probably just as well

I wrote about my fondness for garage sales in the very first post here. On most weekends, it’s hard to drive very far without seeing a sign for a yard sale or a garage sale. And going to them is fun because it costs nothing, and offers a chance to find something interesting. One man’s