I remember playing touch football in the street, and baseball in Chris Bowe's backyard, having bike races around the block, making wood things we called "hydroplanes" and dragging them behind our bikes on strings, playing hide-and-go-seek and freeze tag and Mother-may-I and red light/green light, shooting bb guns in the woods across the street from Mark Wiles's house, and a zillion board games in Mikey Sipila's carport (and sometimes in the house) on rainy days (anybody else like "Mille Bornes" as much as I do?).

My wife and I try to shoo the kids outside as much as we can on nice days -- especially the littler ones. But there is no question, their "growing up" experience is vastly different than what ours was.

Sigh....

Alex
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