I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such.

Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?

Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.

Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.

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.

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

We play because we are wired for joy; it is imperative as human beings.