
2021: A Space Odyssey
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…
Read More11/19/20 If you look out your window, either at home or at work, your street probably looks pretty much the same as it did…
Read More09/10/2020 The first toy that my parents later remembered giving me was a basketball. They said that I had been asking for the moon,…
Read More04/14/2020 Let me make it clear up front that I am not totally anti-technology. I know that I have gone off on a number…
Read More02/07/2020 When Tom Williams and I started this company 36 years ago, I also had a fulltime job running a printing plant. I was…
Read More11/12/2019 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….
Read More10/08/2019 Over the past few years, I have often remarked that there could be an asteroid headed toward Earth and the news media would…
Read MoreI first became aware of “specialty” toy stores more than 30 years ago. Some of them were hybrids spun off from the school supply…
Read MoreAs long as I have been around the toy industry, there has been a discussion, sometimes heated, about the role that gender plays in…
Read MoreSometimes it’s difficult to separate our philosophical opinions from our self-interest. Do we favor certain government programs, for example, or tax policy, or whatever…
Read MoreIt turns out that Geoffrey may not have been a giraffe after all. He may be a vampire. By that I mean that he…
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