June 2009

Kings CornerPlayers: 2-6

Ages: 5+

What you need: deck of 52 cards

Object of the game: To be the first to get rid of all of your cards

To start off, deal each player seven cards.  The person to the left of the dealer goes first and continues on clockwise. Place the remaining deck of cards in the center of the table face down, and then take 4 cards and turn them face up to start “layoff” piles. Once a king appears, each will go in each corner space as shown below. Read more

Community and harmony is very fashionable these days..Barely mid June at around 7:30pm, I am traipsing along a forest trail behind three new girlfriends I've made here at The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee. We have been bunking together at the Eco-Hostel for the last two weeks throughout our month long apprenticeship in Natural Building. We are on our way to a ladies' clothing swap at Caroline's house, where we will meet the other women of The Farm, the longest running American intentional community and ecovillage, to swap clothing and stories and songs, some fine dishes of food, wine and tequila. Read more

This is a great card game, especially for family (we play it whenever family is visiting or on the holidays). In our family it has been passed down from generation to generation.  My grandma was taught this card game in England and her relatives in Australia also play it.  Each family seems to change the rules slightly, but here are the rules and the way the game is played from what I know.

The object of the game is to collect as many points as possible and go out, leaving your opponent in their FOOT, stuck with negative points.  The person with the highest amount of points by the end of round 4 wins. Read more

BalderdashI must say that this is one of my all time favorite party games, ever!  Balderdash is the “classic bluffing game” and who doesn’t love to bluff on occasion?!  I remember playing this game with my siblings and my oldest brother’s answers would always make me crack up so hard &ndash Read more