Photoessay #2858 - Just a small world

This quarter I'm taking Jewish Women In Contemporary American at the University of Washington as an access student.  It's been a great time, actually, the whole thing is coming together.  Taught by Associate Professor Kathie Friedman.  Actually we have found that we have a lot in common in our family life.

Today, she mentioned to a guest speaker (really enjoyed them!) that she had gone to graduate school at SUNY Binghamton.

Hey, my cousin Mark went there.  About the same time too.  Graduate student.  Sociology.  Wonder if they knew each other.  Right, that's a pretty big school.  I ask anyway.  Turns out she does!  She went to graduate school with Mark and his wife Giovanna and they all hung out together.  That would be a long time ago, like the late 1970s or so.

How funny is that?  She loved hearing about him and how he was doing.  I sent her some pictures from probably the last time we were together, 2010.  Warm enough to swim at Stinson Beach.

---still looking for orange trees to visit in the San Gabriel Valley
---got the update from the Asay family.  Thanks, Dennis and I read the whole thing!