One of my favorite things about coming to Chicago is playing Scrabble with my mom, but she’s getting mean about it lately. I feel I need to blame Keith, since she’s been playing with him recently. She even accused me of cheating and that’s pretty hard since she keeps the score!

She recently won a game and the gloating was overwhelming. Keith, what are you doing to my mother when you play her that turns a sweet woman to a heartless gamer?

Oh well, I guess I’ll have to take comfort in the 16 or 17 games I won and hope she doesn’t start hitting me again.