Hello, ’00s.

Another guest columnist here, Brian Feldman in Pittsford, New York (outside Rochester). In June my oldest son, Asa, had me beaming with pride at his bar mitzvah. Back in January I founded a boutique government investigations and high-stakes litigation firm called Aurelian Law. We’re thriving (and hiring!), and I’m loving it. And Ryan Evans lives around the corner, so when we can we grab beers and drink whiskey. Life is good.

Jonathan Waldman wrote to me in late August from the middle of Montana, where he and his girlfriend were a few weeks and 700 miles into the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route (GDMBR). He started the route in Banff, Canada, and sent me a photo of his bike next to a sign pointing 1,968 miles toward Antelope Wells. After a stop in the Tetons, they plan to ride back to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Susan Kandel has been living across the Atlantic. She reports, “I moved to the Netherlands about three years ago and am loving it. I just celebrated my first anniversary as general counsel for Radius Global Infrastructure, a leading global aggregator of property interests underlying wireless telecommunications sites and other digital infrastructure. My role requires frequent travel back to New York City as well as visits to many of the 20-plus countries in which we operate. During the past year my wife, Michelle, and I have enjoyed a number of memorable trips, including a very special three-week adventure through the Northwest Passage from Greenland to Alaska, where we saw 34 polar bears, hundreds of walruses, whales, seals, and even a few narwhals! (We’re clearly taking ‘’round the girdled earth’ very seriously!). We also managed to attend some exciting events, such as Eurovision and the Olympics. In addition to my work responsibilities, I am serving on two volunteer boards: Global Camps Africa, which teaches life skills and HIV/AIDS prevention to South African children through day and residential camps, and Immigration Equality, the leading LGBTQ and HIV+ immigration rights organization in the United States. Anyone passing through the Netherlands should let me know!”

Earlier this year Abby Gaunt led a session on adult women and late-in-life ADHD diagnoses for the Women of Dartmouth. After nearly a decade as dean of students at Tulane Law School, Abby started an executive coaching and consulting business earlier this year with a focus on supporting high achievers with ADHD. Abby lives in New Orleans with her husband, son Mack, and daughter Maisie. She sees fellow New Orleanian Liza Cowan, who is completing a fellowship with Tulane’s general counsel. Abby reports: “Liza graduated from Tulane Law in 2023, so she was my student!”

Allison Aab and her husband, Max Brunet, recently took a vacation at a lake house in Muskoka (north of Toronto) with Hilary Bikle and Ned Guthrie, Jane (Barron) and Peter Fritz, and Kathryn (Greer) and Jarrod Boland earlier in the month: “Super fun, with nine kids ranging in age from 3 to 15!”

Finally, Melissa Wise sends her love from Texas, where she and partner Zane Scheible are surviving another wildly hot summer. Melissa reports that she puts all her time “(and that Romance language degree) into providing fab story times at one of Austin’s coolest public library branches.”

Thank you, Brian, for a great guest column. Send news and updates to us at the email below.

—Kate (Ryan) Stowe, 91 Waterman Place, St. Louis, MO 63112; dartmouth2000secretary@gmail.com