Wednesday night Andy and Linda hosted a holiday get-together at the Literary Cafe, and since we were in town we headed on over. They had a nice jazz quintet playing, and there was a good crowd.

Here’s a fun bit of serendipity: Looking through Linda’s Facebook invitation I saw a name I recognized, and sure enough…

When I was in fourth grade I used to wait for the bus with the woman in the center of the picture above. That was, what, 1967? She didn’t remember me, but she had a somewhat unusual name and I don’t. Small world.