Getting Game

Games of all sorts have woven in and out of my life for many years. When I was a kid, my family played a lot of cribbage and gin rummy, not only at home but on the road as well. Our vacations were often camping and backpacking trips, with a pack of mini cards and a little folding cribbage board easily slipped into the side pocket of a bag. One particularly rainy backpacking trip kept us holed up in one camp spot for a couple of days. We’d forgotten the playing cards, but I cut up some paper from a small notepad I’d taken along, crafting handmade cards to help make the drippy hours pass.