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 toContinue reading “Like a trip through the past”

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 andContinue reading “A part of my youth”

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”Continue reading “On improving my verbs”