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My card-playing friends tell me (or rather insist) that poker is a game of skill, not luck. I have heard it said, “You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, know when to walk away, [and] know when to run.”1 I don’t doubt them; in fact, I’ll double down and say...
Posted On Dec 30 2022 06:06
, By JIM RAYPHAND
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Half-breed culture

Note: Adapted from an article I wrote, “Culture Shock: American Islanders at St. Anne’s Belfield,” which was previously published in my high school magazine, PERSPECTIVES, in the summer of 2009. I graduated from a small high school, St. Anne’s Belfield (STAB), in Charlottesville,...
Posted On Dec 23 2022 06:06
, By JIM RAYPHAND
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If I should die

I’ve come to know that in the wake of every loved one’s passing lies a turbulent trail of tears adrift in the void left behind. As one lovable actor famously responded when asked what he thought happens when we die, “I know that the ones who love us will miss us.” I don’t take...
Posted On Dec 10 2021 06:04
, By JIM RAYPHAND

I wore my running shoes to work

My latest in what’s now been a lifetime of ridiculous mind-games designed to get me back to the gym is a new strategy to wear my running shoes to work (I sit behind a desk). The basic premise is that I am far more likely—and at least one step closer to a workout—if I have running...
Posted On Jan 09 2020 06:06
, By JIM RAYPHAND
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