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Shanghai Rum
I find it interesting how families can be different in little ways. Growing up, my family — on both sides — loved to play cards; Kish’s family didn’t. Some families avidly follow sports teams; some are...
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Crazy for Cribbage
In a few weeks we’ll be having the Webner family retreat and, as always, we will be taking along the cribbage board and a deck of cards. Cribbage is, simply put, the best card game ever invented. On...
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Nothing Like a Good Game of Euchre
Well Cathy and I are on a short vacation in Naples Florida visiting our cousin Beth, her husband Craig and mom’s brother Uncle Gilbert (fondly referred to as UG throughout the rest of this blog)....
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At The Pete Nowak Lodge
It’s time to crack open another cold Labatt’s and focus on some serious pegging. It’s time to play some cribbage — unquestionably the greatest card game of all — and knock off the Irish lads to get...
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Cribbage Converts
When I went to Canada for a fishing trip recently, I took along a cribbage board. As I’ve noted before, I think cribbage is the best card game ever invented, and I thought it would be a perfect way to...
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Once More, Into The Breach
Richard is home for winter break. The temperature outside hovers around 65 degrees. My work for the day is done. Cigars and a curious assortment of beers from our excellent corner beverage shop have...
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The 28
I’ve been playing cribbage for more than 40 years, with my grandfather, my father, my uncles, my brother, my brothers-in-law, my sons, my college roommate, and my friends. Tonight I had my biggest...
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Cigars and Cribbage
Yes, it’s that time of year again. Time to venture into Canadian waters, drink deep of the Canadian brew, fire up a stogie or three, feign a passing acquaintance with rod and reel, and get heavily...
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Card Sharks
An Atlantic City casino, the Borgata Casino & Spa, has sued a big-time gambler, claiming that he cheated at cards and won $9.6 million playing baccarat in the process. (Those of you who are James...
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Big Board
Unfortunately, we weren’t able to go to Hen Island this year, for a number of reasons. That’s sad, but it also means that I haven’t had a serious cribbage fix for a very long while. It eased the pain...
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Let Slip The Inner Asshole
In my family, cards were serious business. You played to win, and if you blundered you could expect to be called on it — in spades. Taunting was not only accepted, but viewed as a crucial part of the...
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UJ’s Hat
Last weekend, on the father-son fishing trip to Hen Island, there was one dominant topic around the card table: UJ’s hat. It is pictured above, in all its glory. When you’re drinking beer, smoking...
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Card Family
This weekend we had a blast up at Put-In-Bay, thanks to the generous hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Gleeful Retiree. Saturday night eight of us sat down to play a little euchre tournament, with team...
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Cleveland And Cribbage
The Tribe won Game 1 of their five-game series with the Boston Red Sox tonight. It was a fabulous, tight game, brilliantly managed by Indians skipper Terry Francona. The key point in the game was...
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Customized Crescent City Cribbage
We were down in New Orleans this past weekend for a bachelor party. To celebrate the occasion, Russell designed and hand made hardwood fleur de lis cribbage boards, suitably inscribed on the back, and...
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Brainstarters And Timewasters
I’d guess that most of us have at least one app on our phone that we tap when we want to get our brains working in the morning, or to give us something to do to fill those random ten-minute snippets of...
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Briscola
Yesterday I (sort of) learned how to play Briscola, an Italian card game. It’s a fun game with rules that are very different from those of an American card game, like euchre or gin rummy. In fact,...
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The Euchre Belt
The other day we were talking about potentially having a social event for our litigation group in Columbus, and someone mentioned that maybe we could hold a euchre tournament. The B.A. Jersey Girl...
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