All7s Blog | Card Game Strategies & Canasta Tips for Adults

There is something unexpectedly moving about the image of Queen Elizabeth II sitting with a pack of cards. Not at a state dinner. Not waving from a balcony. Not in one of the heavily choreographed moments that filled so much of her public life. Instead, in a quieter ...

There was a time when Sunday dinner was one of the most dependable parts of the week. It was not fancy in every home, and it did not need to be. What mattered was that people knew where they were going. Around one table, at roughly the same time, family and friends gathered...

Dolly Parton grew up in a two-room cabin in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. No running water. No electricity. Twelve kids crammed into a space most of us wouldn't use as a guest room. But they had a front porch. And that porch changed everything. Read more

Eva Gabor was famous for a lot of things. Green Acres. That accent. The diamonds. The husbands. But here is something most people never talk about. Eva played Canasta. A lot. The Hollywood Canasta Craze Read more

Julia Child didn't become famous because she loved food. She became famous because she invited people into her kitchen. What her dinner parties teach us about building a weekly gathering after fifty.