I regularly play bridge online as well as locally. It's open 24 hours a day with players from all over the world. One person who is often my partner is a man in Egypt. We've played partners for about 2 years. I know very little about him other than he and I play a similar game and once when he was online more than usual he said his wife was in another country awaiting the birth of their newest child.

One thing players do online that would rarely happen in person is they will leave...

My mom was proud of her maiden name, more so than her married name, the latter of which was my surname. I didn't like the name, but didn't realize it was probably because of mother. Neither names are unusual, but not common either. Just regular unassuming names more likely not to be given names.

My younger brother's middle name was our mother's maiden name, but he was dubbed a junior. Since our father's middle name was Washington, perhaps they didn't wish to burden him with it,...

My first grade began when I was five years old. My mother, who was very frugal even paid tuition at the public school for it to happen. I don't remember much about it although there was a boy I liked. One day when I fell, mother must have kept me at home next day because his mother brought him to our house and he had a present for me. I think it was handkerchiefs. He had red hair and a lot of freckles. Many years later, my second husband happened to have a business trip to a town near where I lived...

Yesterday, I drove to Yale OK from Muskogee, thinking I would find Underwood Rd easily, but didn't see a sign. Decided to fuel up my car and asked the lady about Underwood Rd. Looking puzzled she finally decided it was that way, pointing east. So I drove 3 blocks that way and didn't see it. Yale is barely more than 1200 population, so if I went one more block I'd be out-of-town. I turned onto the next street and it was handy to stop and ask a man in a parked SUV.

"I'm looking for...

When traveling in England, I would go to the bus station and take the first coach scheduled to leave if the first stop wasn't too far away. I think it was in Exeter, I met a man and his college age daughter who were touring around in a car with the ultimate destination a small town in Scotland. I joined them agreeing to pay part of the fuel costs and we headed for Land's End before the trip north. He was a professor at an Illinois university on a year's sabbatical and she was a student.
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