Stories

  I attended the Westport author book fair.  Lovely day for a book fair, May 3rd. 

My mom is 83 and her mental capacity has diminished much over the last few years. She often struggles to find the dog’s bowl or the microwave but she can still play Mah Jongg. Thank you to the kind ladies at the Westport Senior Center who let her be their fourth when one of…

I am sorry to say that every once in a while you have a bad experience playing mah jongg because you wind up playing with a disgruntled or bossy player. Today I had that happen to me. The woman I was playing with immediately took issue when I explained that I had to leave…

After not playing mahjong for a few months, I walked in on a game in progress just after the Charleston was completed…. I watched a player picking up and organizing her tiles for play and because there were only 3 players, the dummy rack was getting set up as well. On that rack I…

For my eightieth birthday my family surprised me with the perfect gift! A custom Maj set. Each joker says SUZY. What fun when someone gets a joker and calls out I got a Suzy!! When you think it can’t get better…‼️

Marlene Corby took down two cut-glass crystal bowls she and Al had gotten forty years ago as a wedding gift and filled them with assorted nuts and mints. She’d baked lemon squares that morning and arranged them diagonally on a Blue Willow cake plate crazed like a spider’s web.

I had been hearing about Mah Jongg for the last few years and wondered what it was all about. I didn’t have a mom or aunt or anyone playing this as I was growing up so I knew nothing about it. I missed out on all the mah jongg stories that friends shared about…

I’ve tried to learn mahjong and I’ve enjoyed watching my cousins play — including Marsha! It is indeed a game of friendly competition and skill.

When I was a  kid growing up, I knew that my aunts played Mah Jongg and my Uncles and my Dad played cards, mostly poker.  My Mom didn’t play either one – her reason, if she needed one, was that she worked – she was a high school biology teacher – and didn’t have…

I have now officially become my mother.  I play Mah Jongg, sometimes twice weekly.  My foray into this new game began last July on Fire Island.  Friends encouraged me to learn, I watched several games, one gave me a very instructive and helpful book by Elaine Sandberg, and the other introduced me to an online…