If you’re like me, during this past Winter Olympics season you sat and watched your television in rapt fascination as various teams of women and men skated down a swath of ice, furiously sweeping a path in front of a gracefully gliding curling stone. Although this sport is the frosty cousin of shuffleboard, a game that has yet to really capture my imagination, I couldn’t peel my eyes away from the screen. Whether it was the grim looks of determination on the faces of those delivering the stone or the drama of those front end skaters rapidly sweeping their brooms before the stone, I managed to somehow forget my ambivalence toward shuffleboard-ish games and become genuinely engrossed in the competition. continue reading…
