Always Bridge
A memoir and tribute to include 8 women of uncommonly quiet strength and good humor over a 58-year period.
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"We started off young; naive? Probably. In the beginning there was just Yung and Jo (myself) shopping in the local Safeway for groceries on a Saturday. We were teachers at an elementary school in the small school district of a middle-class, even “provincial” town (that’s what my son appropriately called it later). Saturday being a day off for us, we did our shopping and some kind of food preparation that day, often turning to a bridge game that night if we could talk our respective roommates into it. None of us were highly social partiers, though we occasionally went to “the city” for entertainment on a Saturday night. If someone had a rare date (we were all but one single), she quickly said, “No thanks” to the bridge game. Ultimately, the bridge game became a Friday night way to “crash”.”
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About the Book
In 1962, author Linda Palmer and a few friends from work began meeting on Friday nights to wind down from the week, enjoy each other’s company, and play a game of bridge. She had no idea that tradition would continue for almost sixty years.
In Always Bridge, she pays tribute to and offers a look at the lives of the women who were an integral part of her life for fifty-eight years. Palmer remembers their conversations and shares anecdotes and nostalgic interviews of this group who provided support and friendship to each other for almost six decades.
Offering real stories about real people, Always Bridge gives testimony to the uncommon quiet strength and good humor of eight special women.
About the Author
Linda J. Palmer was a longtime educator in a K-8, small school district on the San Francisco Peninsula.