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May 2021, WordPlay

A Shot in the Dark

05/04/2021 I have a close friend who owns a business that employs about 30 people, both part and fulltime. Because the company is in…

February 2021, WordPlay

02/16/2021 Shopping online seems deceptively simple. All you need is one finger, applied to the computer that is already sitting in your lap or…

November 2020, WordPlay

11/19/20 If you look out your window, either at home or at work, your street probably looks pretty much the same as it did…

09/10/2020 The first toy that my parents later remembered giving me was a basketball. They said that I had been asking for the moon,…

April 2020, WordPlay

04/14/2020 Let me make it clear up front that I am not totally anti-technology. I know that I have gone off on a number…

February 2020, WordPlay

02/07/2020 When Tom Williams and I started this company 36 years ago, I also had a fulltime job running a printing plant. I was…

11/12/2019 I’m not getting any younger. I suspect that you’re not, either, and perhaps your customers are moving a little slower lately as well….

10/08/2019 Over the past few years, I have often remarked that there could be an asteroid headed toward Earth and the news media would…

May/June 2019, WordPlay

I first became aware of “specialty” toy stores more than 30 years ago. Some of them were hybrids spun off from the school supply…

As long as I have been around the toy industry, there has been a discussion, sometimes heated, about the role that gender plays in…