The Disaster of the Cranky Crankie

So Lady Gaga had just gotten back from space and was wearing a hotdog costume. Hitler came up to her and said, “You look like a Wiener Schnitzel.” She says to him, “This is a bad romance, Adolf.” But I get ahead of myself. It all started when Hitler, Mitt Romney, Obama, Hans Solo, aContinue reading “The Disaster of the Cranky Crankie”

Wild Word Games

Summer feeling looooooong? Here are three crazy word games to occupy minds young and old. Bananagram Poetry This game works just like Bananagrams (or Speed Scrabble if you play with Scrabble tiles instead of the nifty little banana bag), but after all the game is over there is one more step: everyone moves one place toContinue reading “Wild Word Games”

In Defense of Boredom

It’s important to have unstructured time. It’s important to have time to daydream, to wander, to tinker, to putz. It’s important to get bored. That’s right. Bored. As I understand it, boredom is a necessary blankness that makes space for truly awesome ideas. “Only boring people get bored,” my mom used to say when weContinue reading “In Defense of Boredom”