She sells an hour at the table as a gift, and teaches by the card.
Lacy Price is the founder of Mahjaholic, teaching American Mahjong out of Houston and, more and more, well beyond it. She learned the game a few years before the world went quiet, sitting down with friends the way most of us started, and in the uncertain years that followed she has said that mahjong gave her a sense of control. What she did next is the part Prim admires: she turned her love of the game into something she could hand to other people, launching Mahjaholic as a way to make her passion more structured and shareable.
Her lessons emphasize pattern recognition and learning to read the NMJL card, the two skills that outlast every card the League will ever print, taught by official National Mah Jongg League rules with an instructor right at your table through the whole game. And the detail that made Prim set down her cup: Mahjaholic sells a gift certificate for a lesson, so you can give someone an hour at the table with a teacher instead of one more object to dust. Prim can think of no purer expression of everything this letter is about.
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