Playing Scrabble

A dear friend gave me an electronic version of Scrabble. I have always been a poor speller and my parents bought the board game when it first came out, thinking it would help me spell better. What really happened was that not only did my spelling not improve, I became more aware of how bad it was. "You can't spell a simple word like 'their'?" I hated being laughed at. I didn't find out why spelling was so hard until I was in graduate school taking an early education class. So when the disk came, I put it aside for a long time. It was only the fact that I had to tell the giver that I had played it that made me open it at all. I discovered a couple of things. The computer never laughed at me for my stupid mistakes, so I got bolder. The second was that for every game played, I did about two hours of inspired writing.
So, up in the morning, walk the dog, feed the sheep, play a couple of games of Scrabble and write for two hours.