Some in the helping professions are lamenting the loss of play in our lives, linking its absence to depression and all kinds of modern maladies.
I blame Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, evangelical novelists, and all the other sky-is-falling doomsayers.
If you only see negative in the world, then that’s what the world will be — a very dark place.
I believe play is as essential in our lives as breathing.
Life in 5 lines or less© plays here every Saturday.

Oh I agree! wanna make a play date? how about Vegas? Cuba? Newfoundland?
All 3 sound good. How about Haida Gwaii? Costa Rica? Easter Island? Let’s go!