Going, going

I played Go in my favorite Green­wich Vil­lage chess shop on Tues­day.  I was invari­ably the only woman in the place.  I’m teach­ing my friend Alexan­der to play. He’s hooked, even though I keep beat­ing him. The great thing is I will feel so very accom­plished the day he beats me. I love it. Some­times I feel like if my life had gone dif­fer­ently, I would have ended up a mathematician.