Loose Leaf Notes

The upside of having 7 rounds of letters with only 1 point each is that all those Rs, Ts, and Es make it easier to make a SCRABBLE (worth 50 extra points), especially if you have an S (also only worth one point). And, a SCRABBLE (or what some call a BINGO) is a long […]

We had one board, two Official Scrabble Dictionaries and three free look-ups.  “Do you want the new or older one,” he asked one of the players who wanted to look up a word, “the one with the dirty words in it or the cleaned up one?” He had the 3rd edition that had swear words […]

They Have a new Black IPA at the Buffalo Mountain Brewery.  It’s good, part stout, part IPA, and named Get the LED Out, after Led Zeppelin, my once favorite band that I saw in concert before they were famous, and after that as well. I was winning the game before I drank the beer, and […]

“I can only make three-letter words with these letters,” I said to my Scrabble friend Mark. “That’s bad enough to elicit a string of four-letter ones,” he answered.

The foreplay My adversary I can see your letters. Is this cheating? This really happened. It was the first time in 20 years that I got Joe to play Scrabble with me.  We had fun. I won. And now he’s watching the Super Bowl.  / Our World Tuesday

I told my Scrabble playing friends (pictured above) that I was going to post this photo and caption it “Scrabble Players Wanted.”   In the past couple of years, we (about six formerly regular players) haven’t played much, but we’ve been talking about getting our monthly games going again and rotating the meet-ups at different homes […]

That’s me doing “research” for a story about the new Dogtown Roadhouse in town.  They have 8 beers on tap and 28 kinds of bottled microbrews. The beer tasting put my fellow Scrabble players at an advantage. “Just one more piece?” young Porter Sweeney seemed to ask his dad.  At Dogtown they cook pizza in […]

Too often my life feels like a landslide of clutter that I have to sort through to make sense of. Some days it takes many hands.

Josh lays down the money letters, J, K, Z, and Q, for a winning game plan. Mara moonlights, making dream catchers for her job at Seeds of Light, while waiting for the Scrabble business to pick up. Colleen doesn’t have an X to stand on, even so, she taunts Josh with the E’s he wished […]

This is the part of our café Scrabble game where Mara jumps up on the chair and gives Rosemary, who has a headache, a massage, and then Rosemary calls Mara a “Nutcracker” and I crack up. Note: Click and scroll HERE for more Scrabble pictures and antics.