TOYLAND

photo by Graham Dean

Hall of Fame toys include Super Soakers, swings, Big Wheels, baby dolls, skateboards, Easy-Bake Ovens, and Legos.   Get or give any of these this holiday?  Personally we enjoyed (kinda?) something Nerf'y that shot and annoyed incoming family all day.   Classic.       story

Principle in the type:  "The only gift is a portion of thyself."  Ralph Waldo Emerson

TRICKS OF THE TRADE

photo by Randy Stewart

Maybe you or I haven't landed a 900 lately.  Not many have.  Tony Hawk first performed the historic skateboarding trick 17 years ago at the 1999 X Games.  And just for kicks and giggles (I guess), did it again this week.  Said Hawk, "I'm still going.  I'll keep on going until the wheels fall off."     story            

Principle in the type:  "...sometimes we believe that the end of the story has already been written, when in reality, we are only in the middle chapters."    Dieter F. Uchtdorf