Nathan has largely moved to “real” Lego bricks, but he still dabbles in the Duplo from time to time. This is his football field, complete with goalposts and players. Alabama is playing “the Yellow Jackets.” (Charles pulls for Georgia Tech.) I don’t know who has the ball, but it looks like Tech has punched a … Read more
When I would go to see my mother in Anniston, we played a lot of Scrabble. We’d play, drink coffee, and laugh all night. She’s been gone for six years, and if I could do one thing with my mom today, it would be that. But during everyone else’s waking hours, we’d play Pictionary. Nobody … Read more
Mom spent the mid- to late ’70s in and out of Columbia House, and she bought a lot of what was popular at the time. That means that in addition to competently performed but moderately banal rock like Sanford-Townsend and Orleans, I’ve got plenty of full-on disco in my memory too. The disco tunes that … Read more