They’re Multiplying Like Rabbits

A new group of 20 cute young women just became the newest Mah Jongg Enthusiasts in Morehead today. It’s been a big week for Mah Jongg. 36 new players in Goldsboro. And tomorrow there will be 16+ beyond beginner players. That’s 72 students in one week.

The Morehead/ Beaufort/ Atlantic Beach area is quickly becoming the second highest concentration of students after Raleigh. Of course there is a big overlap of Raleigh people who also live at the beach too.

The overlap is not just with places it is also the spider web of people. In my class today I had a the daughter-in-law of Henri from Roaring gap. Two daughters and another daughter -in-law of other students. I had the cousin of Warren Brothers. Two college friends of Anne Cherry’s daughter and the boarding school friend of Annette Williamson’s daughter. And those were just the connections that came out randomly. If we had looked I bet we could have have a no less than two degree of separation for everyone in the room with me through Mah Jongg.

It was sad that I did not get to spend time with Anne Cherry, but that freed me up to go to Beaufort and see Annette. I finally got to meet her daughter, who is an English teacher DA, her husband and children. Annette and I went to Blue Moon for dinner and ran into Peggy and Walker Harris and we got invited to a Super Bowl party tomorrow. Walker wants to learn Mah Jongg now.

A girl at the bar recognized me as her Mah Jongg teacher and she is coming to class tomorrow. You can’t throw a stone down here and not hit someone who is connected to me through Mah Jongg. It’s the best. And to think this is all thanks to Reba Huckabee who said six years ago, “Can you come down and teach my friends in Morehead to play Mah Jongg?”

I’ve come full circle here. Today I taught at the spooners creek club house, the first place I taught with Reba all those years ago.