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Play A Game . . . Maybe Two

Blog blog blog. Blah blah blah. OK why am I really writing this? To get more people to visit my website and make me rich. But why are you reading this? Don’t you have better things to do? Go climb a mountain or visit your grandmother. This is not literature. No one ever won a Read More

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The Board Game Poet

Mr. Meckers likes to play checkers Without regard to crowds of long neckers. As for chess Its a mess That is unless You talk to Tess. But the gang was jamin’ Fishin’ for salmon And playin’  backgammon! So everyone plays cribbage Can you say fribbage? (Or how about arbitrage?) My knees checkers are tyin’ ‘ese Read More

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Why Play A Boardgame?

Why play a board game? Really.  Don’t you have something more important or more exciting or more fulfilling to do. Like . . . Reviewing your financial portfolio? Cleaning the bathroom? Reading Faust? Who cares about a game of checkers these days? What’s to be learned by playing a game of backgammon? Chinese Checkers is Read More