“Ludic: of, relating to, or characterized by play: PLAYFUL” (Merriman Webster). “Pick-up sticks, pick-a-stick, jackstraws, jack straws, spillikins, spellicans, or fiddlesticks is a game of physical ...

We had another windstorm the other night. It was bad enough that Bella, the one I call my “deathbed promise dog” (because she was my mother’s rescue and now she’s mine) whined and flung herself ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...