With Friends Like These …

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.  Katherine Mansfield

Something miraculous happens when I’m with friends. I can’t tell you the science behind it, but I’m as certain as I can be that physically, I change. My shoulders stop hurting. [...]

Carcassonne

We play a lot of games in our house. I grew up playing Cribbage, Monopoly, Sorry, Racko and a made-up game called Bikini Gin.  My parents played  500, a trick-taking game based on Euchre.  A cohort of Minnesotan  friends and family would get together once a month to play cards, drink high-balls and talk.   This was before I was born [...]