Want to know something funny?  I've never played the board game LIFE. We were a Monopoly family growing up and my brother and I never got LIFE.  This week while at camp my son played LIFE and pestered me all week that he needed this game.  My frugal mind said that we'd wait until right before Christmas when you can find it for $5 in the stores but he REALLY wanted this game.  So we shelled out 'almost' full retail price this weekend for him - dang that hurt!  Anyways to get to the point on my post I played LIFE for the first time last night. The Game of LIFE as played by an 8 year old After about 20 minutes reading over the rules (yes, I'm that dork - didn't want to miss anything) my son and I started playing LIFE.  At 8 years old he's lived enough LIFE himself that I thought it would be fun to see what choices he made for his own LIFE.  I won the opening spin and chose to take the same path that I took in my own LIFE and went to college.  He didn't even hesitate and chose the college ... [ Read More ]