I’m sitting on the couch with Caleb, looking at a cool link Paul posted of a chess set made entirely of nuts and bolts and washers.
“Caleb,” I say, pointing to the screen, “check out this chess set!”
“Nice,” the kid says, using the tone of a sixteen year old looking at his first souped-up Chevy. “It’s [...]
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The battle continues.
Today I took nine cans and hid them all around Kathy’s classroom while she was doing lunch duty. Each can had a word taped to it; assembled, they reproduced the Bard’s vengeful cry from the pages of ‘Julius Caesar’:
After I finished my covert operation, I crept stealthily away and spent what was left [...]
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Okay, now that we’re alone, I have a question for you, readers.
In “Much Ado About Nothing”, Shakespeare called the constant skirmish of wits between Benedick and Beatrice a “merry war”.
I’m having a merry war right now with my friend, Kathy, except instead of words, we are using empty Diet Coke cans.
How did it start? Well, [...]
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