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Over our 28 years of explaining, we've accumulated a wealth of valuable information that doesn't fit neatly under our web site tabs. This body of knowledge includes some tools we have developed, approaches that have worked well, other approaches that failed, and a large amount of miscellany that could be called "accumulated wisdom" or perhaps more accurately "battle scars"

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Word Nerd Traditions Live

Okay, I just had to share this quick tidbit (part 3 of my aliteracy series is coming soon).

While on vacation with my family (siblings, parents, niece), we bunked in cottages on Walloon Lake in Northern Lower Michigan. Naturally, our entertainment was limited to swimming, fishing, snorkeling, boating-outdoorsy activities. But my 10-year-old niece had brought along a friend and quite often we'd play board games while sitting in the shade of two giant oak trees. Guess which game we all loved (remembering almost all of us are related). Boggle. It's not quite Scrabble, because the kids couldn't keep up with that. But they had no trouble with Boggle. In fact, after a couple games in teams, when they picked me, the former English teacher to be on their side, the girls decided they wanted to go it alone.

It doesn't get any better than that . . .