Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences.

Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences.

I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth.

Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.