I had not played bridge since college (am now 81).  I lost my wife to cancer on April 4th, 2020…during the COVID epidemic.  So, here I was grieving and very much alone.  When our YMCA in Phoenixville PA re-opened in August, I started going to work out again.  I vaguely remembered something about a bridge club and inquired.  I was sent to the “active older adults” room (I call it the old age room) and met a group of people playing bridge. 

I believe it was the next month that they were going to have a week long teaching session. So I sat in on a bunch of hands to observe and, kind of, relearn the game a little.  I also went on-line to play and learn a little more.  The main thing that bridge did for me was to give me company…people to be around and to have a little fun again.  It was an extremely trying period (and still is, but to a lesser degree) and that bridge club (along with my church) became the center of my life.