Where I Go: Jigsaw Puzzles

Whenever I Have Too Much to Think About or Not Enough, I Pull Out a Puzzle    

Like most children of my generation, the first jigsaw puzzle I ever did was likely a plywood map of the United States, divided into 10 or so pieces with little plastic knobs on top. Or it could have been one of several large-pieces-for-little-hands cardboard sets of 100-odd shapes that transformed into Scooby-Doo, or Huey, Dewey, and Louie, or whatever. Perhaps it was one that came in a can—a shtick popular in the 1970s. We always had tons of jigsaw puzzles in the house, so I don’t remember the first ones; …