The one-eyed king and the devil’s picture books
Has life dealt you a bad hand? But do you still manage to come up trumps most of the time? Or, more to my point, have you ever noticed how many playing card expressions have made it into our regular language? After a long period away from card games (I’m a lousy player, actually – can’t keep a poker face), I was recently induced to play a few hands of euchre, and my son taught me a new game called cambio. One thing I liked about this game was that it alerted me to the fact…