One of my favorite childhood memories is of playing ditch with the neighborhood kids and my mother after dark. She was the only adult in the neighborhood who would play with us. A combination of tag and hide-and-seek, ditch is played by waiting until dark and splitting into two teams. You establish a home base and then one team goes and hides throughout the neighborhood. The other team counts to a certain number and then comes looking for you. If they find you, you have to try to make it back to home base before they can tag you. I was the smallest, so my mother used to tuck me behind central air conditioners, in bushes, or even in the bed of our neighbor’s truck. I could always count on her to lead them away from me so I could get back to home base in time.