"I think monkey bars and tall slides are great.
When seesaws and tall slides and other perils were disappearing from New York's playgrounds, Henry Stern drew a line in the sandbox.
Against tall, sliding and swiveling panels in pocked gun-metal black, lined with rivets and portholes, bedraggled choristers bearing worn suitcases lament historical and present trespasses to haunting effect.
Rushed into completion in London, the swirling video imagery, by 59 Productions, that is projected onto the set's tall, sliding towers has been reassessed and thoroughly revised for New York.
Visitors who don't want to travel at the speed of 19 feet a second can take a ride down the shorter, one-and-a-half-story-tall slide at Terminal 3 Basement 2, which is free.
But it is in the small daily risks — the taller slide, the bike ride around the block, the invitation extended to a new classmate — that growth takes place.
Singapore's Changi Airport recently unveiled the Slide@T3, the tallest slide in Singapore and, for the record, at any airport around the world.
Standing at the top of the tallest slide in Pyongyang's Munsu Water Park, clutching a rubber ring and watching the water gush through candy-coloured loops to a wave pool below, it's easy to forget you're in North Korea.
So, I find myself most afternoons whizzing down the tallest slide right behind her.
We all have an inner voice that tells us to go down the tallest slide, with no fear, but it is difficult to live boldly.
At one point, I was helping my middle son salvage his popsicle when out of the corner of my eye, I saw the baby perched at the top of the tallest slide, poised to head straight down.
