February 2010

When I was a kid back in the 1970’s (please no jokes about how old I am- I’m well aware), there wasn’t the Internet to scare our parents and waste our time, cell phones were a distant reality, and I actually spent my time with good, ole family fun, as most of us did. We still drank water from the tap (and sometimes from the hose), knew our neighbors well enough to do more than just borrow eggs, and never had an organic piece of food cross our lips.

Star Wars was all we talked about, Farrah Fawcett was on the wall of 56% of teen-aged boys bed rooms, and when we weren’t playing Frogger on our Nintendos or Intellivisions, we played board games for fun.

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