Three Things from Edmonton -- Episode 117: Scrabble, colour, reading
Here are three things that left behind still discernible tracks of happiness and gratitude in the week that was. Three Things, episode 117, for the listening and sharing. 1. Scrabble My friend Rob is the craftiest Scrabble player I have ever tiled against. A man of letters, he is. A player with supreme control of his vowels. A champion of the game who will soften you up with a flurry of two-letter, three-way jabs before putting you to the canvas with a seven-letter bingo, or two. I had never beaten him. That’s not quite true. Years ago, I did prevail. Alas, that was the game, we were soon after to learn, that was played with a missing tile. So the triumph remained asterisked. Rob is the kind of Scrabbler who would play ISKED onto ASTER, with the K on a triple letter. You get the picture of what it’s like to face him. We met for lunch and a game at Buca...