Yesterday my daughter went with me to the office while I sent out billing. The hyper-terminal connection Medicare uses was frustratingly slow and I muttered, "I might as well be using two cans and a string". Bronnie looked at me like I had two heads and said, "What???". I found myself explaining the way we played telephone with cans and a string. It dawned on me that it was an antiquated and obsolete game (made obsolete, maybe, with the advent of cordless phones?). I started to reminisce aloud about all the games my brothers and I played as kids that did not require video cards, joy sticks, or monitors. Suddenly the generation gap of this generation seems a huge crevasse. Do your kids play non-tech games? Cards, marbles, dramatic play? Is all of that simply a thing of the past? Julie Krueger ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html