Robert Forto

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NaBloPoMo: What do you still make-believe?

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I am participating in the NaBloPoMo challenge for May. It should be a fun one. It is titled: Play.

Today’s topic is: What do you still make-believe?

While I don’t play make-believe I do believe that in this world of hard realties and second-hand gossip there just has to be something to believe in. I think that the spirit of Christmas allows us to believe in what is inside…

As a child you believe that the magic is in opening Santa’s presents. What you don’t learn till your a parent is that the magic starts long before Santa comes. It starts when your childrens eyes light up with whatever traditions your family follows. Mine is when my children used to help put out the cookies and carrots and a Coke for Santa, and when they help me make our special reindeer food and spread it out on the walk for the reindeer to eat when they stopped by. It’s also when you realize that you never stopped hearing the bells you just needed your children to remind you to listen.

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Robert Forto is mushin’ down a dream in the wilds of Alaska. He and is wife are raising two teenagers at Forto’s Fort.

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NaBloPoMo: Did you have an imaginary friend?

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I am participating in the NaBloPoMo challenge for May. It should be a fun one. It is titled: Play.

Today’s topic is: Did you have an imaginary friend?

No I didn’t but one thing that is sure to creep anyone out is this video of the top five imaginary friends in the movies including Danny Torrance in the The Shining.

Check it out:

 

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Robert Forto is mushin’ down a dream in the wilds of Alaska. He and is wife are raising two teenagers at Forto’s Fort.

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NaBloPoMo: Do you think you are a good sport?

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I am participating in the NaBloPoMo challenge for May. It should be a fun one. It is titled: Play.

Todays topic is: do you think you are a good sport?

That is up for debate. I guess it would depend on who you are asking.

I do not let my kids win at games to make them feel good and I have, on the rare occasion, made a grown man cry when participating in any sport of the backyard variety.

As I have said in my previous posts I am uber-competitive and that is a trait that is either desired or scorned in today’s society.

I firmly agree that  there are no points for second place.

Think about it?

Who came in second in this year’s Kentucky Derby?

Who was second in the NBA Finals?

Who was the runner up on this season of The Voice?

Who was not voted the Celebrity Apprentice this past weekend?

Unless you are on American Idol, I don’t think coming in second place has many perks. Do you?

Does all of this make me a bad sport?

No.

After every game I will always shake the hand of my opponent and tell them “good game.” I will offer a hand to a guy on the field. I will congratulate them for a job well done if they score, knock me down, throw a pick on me or otherwise leave me in the dust.

So in this world of win at all costs in everything from school to sports to business it is not if you win or lose but how you play the game.

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Robert Forto is mushin’ down a dream in the wilds of Alaska. He and is wife are raising two teenagers at Forto’s Fort.


 

 

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NaBloPoMo: Is there any game you are too old to play?

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I am participating in the NaBloPoMo challenge for May. It should be a fun one. It is titled: Play.

Todays topic is: Is there any game you are too old to play?

What is the old adage? If it is too loud, you are too old?

I think the same thing applies to games.

I guess it would be unfair to play little league, pee wee football, or possibly whack a piñata at a six year-olds birthday party?

But why do we as adults want to take all the fun away from the kids?

We have plenty of games for just us:

Quarters

Beer Pong

Spin the Bottle

7-minutes in the dark with you-know-who

Poker–of various varieties that sometimes may or may not involve removing of textiles.

Then we have video games.

I saw an episode of The Simpons yesterday and the scene was Bart and Grampa sitting on the floor playing some sort of Space Invaders game.

Bart was yelling instructions to Grampa:

Shoot here!

Capature that!

Shoot there!

Within seconds grandpa was dead–his video game ship anyway.

And he says,

“Awww, I got on the floor for this!”

I think that about sums it up, don’t you?

What game are you too old to play?

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Robert Forto is mushin’ down a dream in the wilds of Alaska. He and is wife are raising two teenagers at Forto’s Fort.

 

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NaBloPoMo: What is the last game you played?

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I am participating in the NaBloPoMo challenge for May. It should be a fun one. It is titled: Play.

Todays topic is: what is the last game you played?

I haven’t had the privilege, or the curse depending on how you look at it, for the last couple weeks of hanging out with another human being. I am up in Tok, Alaska watching my friends pack of Iditarod sled dogs while he is on a school tour on the east coast.

I am just glad my name is not Jack because it has been all work and no play. You know what that means?

Jack can be a dull boy!

So in the sprit of the theme, I guess the last game I played was catch with my daughter, Nicole, a couple weeks ago.

As I have said in previous posts, Nicole is turning out to be a pretty good little catcher on her high school softball team. She starts for the junior varsity team and is the back-up catcher on the varsity team. As a freshman!

Back to the game of catch. It had been a while since we have played catch together. Several years in fact. She took a two year hiatus from softball to play lacrosse–I taught her how to play that too.

But as soon as we started throwing the ball around she started talking about the way you used to play catch.

“Don’t let anything by you, Nicole!” she said. And,

“Catch the ball Nicole or you are walking home!”

I may have mentioned that I am very competitive and it has rubbed off on my kids. I am sure some of you are saying–man, what is up with this guy? Give you kids a break, dude.

To the contrary. Nicole is glad I forced her to try her best. She is glad I was hard on her in sports.

Why? Because she is playing varsity softball. As a freshman.

Enough said. 

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Robert Forto is mushin’ down a dream in the wilds of Alaska. He and is wife are raising two teenagers at Forto’s Fort.

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