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Dear Fellow Expat:
My father taught me five things when I turned five years old.
1. How to keep score at a baseball game (scorecard)
2. How to read a baseball box score (hits/at bats)
3. How to read the McCormick & Co. (MCK) stock quote in the Baltimore Sun.
4. How to pour a vodka, club soda, and lime (2 parts vodka: 3 soda)
5. How to play gin rummy (10 cards).
Aside from my father influencing his own partner in crime to pour him a drink, talk baseball, and play cards… There was a lesson in each.
Mathematics.
You’ll find addition, subtraction, pattern recognition, division, and multiplication.
Now, I can’t get my daughter to watch much baseball with me.
And I don’t drink around her (particularly not at home).
But we have moved into the world of rummy.
Someone gave her a 36-card deck with numbers one through nine.
It’s been a week since we started playing…
At first, she was frustrated. She didn’t want to play for points, only for “who wins the most hands.”
But she had a meltdown after each hand s…
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