Dutch Blitz is an odd-looking little card game. (“A Vonderful Goot Game!”) I had seen it on the shelf before but didn’t buy it, and now I’m sad that we didn’t get it sooner! The game has a cute but strange Pennsylvania Dutch motif, but the game play is a mix of cooperative solitaire, Spoons,…
Being in the high school marching band means being a geek. Unappreciated. Misunderstood. But whether your kid is in the band or not, there are a lot of things to appreciate and even admire about them. I worked all day recently at my kid’s school when they hosted a marching band competition. Twelve bands from…
Today I ran into an acquaintance that I hadn’t seen in about three years. I asked about her kids and she asked about mine, who are all in roughly the same age group. I mentioned that my older child was happy at his school because he is a nerd and there are a lot of other nerds…
