My collection was enlarged by stopping in all stores that might carry these “artistic”, for lack of a better word, European-style cards. It has been a deep and abiding love, a bearer of much joy, a literary and artistic inspiration, and #42 on my list of Favorite Things Favorite Things – Old Lady Writing]. By this I mean, I do not necessarily love playing card games, but love the cards themselves. Just a small and random sampleįor a large part of my life, I have loved playing cards and wanted to possess them. This got me thinking about what, among the many weird, yet non-traumatic, particulars of my life remain obscure, yet interesting? And I keep coming back to my playing card collection. I was just a trifle annoyed that most of my colleagues had similarly outrageous and improbable experiences, though somewhat mollified when, after I announced my three “facts”, someone muttered that “they are all lies”. And of course I obsessed about it for a couple of weeks leading up to the big day, because I like to think that many interesting and unlikely things happened to me over the years. In fact, I think everyone did, because we are lawyers. I got to play “Two truths and a lie” on a Zoom call at work.
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