Did you know playing board games with your significant other can release the feel-good bonding hormone? I didn't. But I think it's true. And now I wonder, what about video games? You can read the intriguing article over at Geek and Sundry: Couples who play board games together release love hormones Baylor study finds. Basically, …
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We Play Nintendo
Last year for Father's Day, my wife surprised me big-time with a refurbished Wii U! I hadn't gamed Nintendo in years. Next thing you know, my family has six 2DS hand-held systems! Now my wife and kids get into playing Nintendo like I do. I've kind of been a Nintendo fan my whole life. Growing …
The Yarniest Hero Ever
Superhero movies are the thing. You've seen them. Bombastic special effects depicting classic good vs. evil revolving around a central protagonist imbued with crazy powers and a complicated story-arc. Then there's Yoshi. Have you heard of him? Yesterday, my wife picked up Yoshi's Woolly World for our Wii U - it was dirt cheap at …
Being In A Box
How do you define yourself? Who, or what, are you? Identity can be a complex subject because people are not that simple. We are nuanced. Maybe even mysterious. There's something else that adds to the complexity: over-thinking identity. But then, swinging the pendulum in the opposite direction to over-simplifying a person's identity is also tricky! …
A Video Gaming Saga
I just finished reading Console Wars by Blake Harris. It was Sega versus Nintendo all over again. I lived in that war in the 90's. But now I've kind of relived it with more detail than ever. I am a combatant, not a casualty, of the console wars. I was, and still am to this …
Our Family Cruise Vacation
My family of 7 went on a 7 day cruise in the Caribbean! We returned last Sunday, sailing from April 1 to April 8. Our ship went from Galveston, TX to Cozumel, Belize, and Honduras. My wife and I, with our 5 sons, shared two adjoining staterooms with balconies aboard the Carnival Breeze--a fun ship! …
