Stories I Should Have Told Sooner

I am 83 and I don’t know how to play Chess or Bridge. At 21, I was predicted to achieve nothing because I had failed to learn these essential entertainment benchmarks. One reader may be saying, “I told you, Walter, that Peck man is not right!”

This column is not a case study of either learning or not learning Chess or Bridge; rather, it is more of a personal choice.

A bit of history: growing up, we …