With the holidays in full swing and stores brimming with crazed parents scrambling to pickup the hottest toys, we thought we’d take a break from the Mall Madness and Plastic Pandemonium to propose a saner, greener, cheaper, and uniqu(er) alternative: a Digital Toy Box. Sure, mobile phones and tablets are ...

This morning I took a half day off work to see my eldest son in his first nativity. It was great, and very sweet. That’s all you need to know, really. I’d post a photo, but photography of any kind was banned because, y’know, every paedophile’s fantasy is a kid ...

“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” — Samuel Johnson Zero hour. On the day of November 1st, I wake early, shower, and have a cup of cocoa. There are times wh...

No way you can reserve for that many in a state park. — J.H. “Hey, Jennifer,” I say to the mom of Nick’s friend Jay, “I’m putting together a team to make reservations for the camp out. Want in on it?” “What do I need to do?” W...

I like the mountains, I like the rolling hills, I like the flowers, I like the daffodils, I like the fireside, When all the lights are low, Boom-de-yada, boom-de-yada Boom-de-yada, boom-de-yada — camp song A In the days that followed my assuming ...

Oh! the old swimmin’-hole! whare the crick so still and deep Looked like a baby-river that was laying half asleep, And the gurgle of the worter round the drift jest below Sounded like the laugh of something we onc’t ust to know Before we co...

Myself am Hell. — Satan, Paradise Lost I try to think back to before I was Nick’s age, before my father was gone, when the world was new. I remember tumbling out of bed mornings into a succession of nows. What mattered was always in front o...

Age: 1 year, 1 month, 4 weeks, 3 days Well, I'm into my third week into my new job. I take Charlotte to the child-minder on my way to work in the morning, and watch her scamper happily off into … Continue reading →

When I first visited the Exertion Games Lab in Melbourne, Australia, I felt like I was walking into my own little corner of the fictional town Eureka. Amid the screens and wires and different projects in the various corners of the lab there was a commitment from the students and ...

One of the most enjoyable games I’ve been a part of in recent times has been an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) being run by an innovative teacher from Australia. We usually think of ARGs as large scale, requiring lots of resources and being part of a marketing campaign for a ...