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Perhaps, but the main reason I’ve never played poker is that I haven’t accepted the element of randomization/luck/fate involved in every card game. Poker requires you not merely to accept, but to enjoy and revel in the random distribution of the cards. This, I think, is the crux of my frustration. If you’re not able to accept the cards you’ve been given, if you’re not able to rejoice when fortune throws you a good hand even though you had nothing to do with...
...owes his substitute teacher roommate. Posing as his roommate, he assumes the responsibility of educating a classroom of unusually well-behaved fifth graders, who he discovers to be, rather conveniently, excellent musicians. School of Rock echoes with comic and emotional resonance without getting mired in sentimentality, allowing Black to revel in a role in which he manages to hit all of his notes perfectly...
Inevitably, a few folks can't adjust and move back to their original community. But the overwhelming majority deal with the challenges and revel in the rewards. As for the Schweitzers, the move has been "a grand adventure." Soon after they settled into their new house, their son and daughter-in-law had a second child and found a more suitable home, which was, coincidentally, right next door to Linda and Bill. Their lives are anything but a rough replica of Everybody Loves Raymond. "We rarely see them more than once a week," Linda says. "My son is a busy...
...owes his substitute teacher roommate. Posing as his roommate, he assumes the responsibility of educating a classroom of unusually well-behaved fifth graders, who he discovers to be, rather conveniently, excellent musicians. School of Rock echoes with comic and emotional resonance without getting mired in sentimentality, allowing Black to revel in a role in which he manages to hit all of his notes perfectly...
...owes his substitute teacher roommate. Posing as his roommate, he assumes the responsibility of educating a classroom of unusually well-behaved fifth graders, who he discovers to be, rather conveniently, excellent musicians. School of Rock echoes with comic and emotional resonance without getting mired in sentimentality, allowing Black to revel in a role in which he manages to hit all of his notes perfectly...