Bridge on Independence Day? Can’t think of anything more patriotic.

Writing this column allows me to meet and occasionally partner with excellent bridge players.

Bidding decisions galore highlighted play at the Edgartown Bridge Club on June 15.

Sometimes you have to look a gift horse in the mouth. That was the lesson of a hand Paul Laliberte and I played in an OKBridge tournament last week.

Chilmark’s Miles Jaffe spends his winters playing bridge, among other things, in New Zealand and France, but a lesson he learned at the Hartford, Conn., Bridge Club really struck home.

What good came out of this accursèd winter? Only indoor activities.