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September-October 2023

The lifting of most Covid restrictions and the background anxiety they helped create has allowed us to return to activities we once enjoyed.
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July-August 2023

Look for the good things.

Linda Holekamp teaches preschool through fifth grade in Port Huron, Michigan. Linda likes being with children, which is a good thing.
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May-June 2023

I found the Covid-related travel restrictions daunting and wound up aborting several international trips. Since many of these restrictions have been eased, I’ve been ready to travel again, as have many of our classmates.
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March-April 2023

A final report on my congressional campaign: As I said on election night to a large crowd, I am grateful for the great class of 1980 and humbled that people who knew me when I was 17 would still support me for U.S. Congress.
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January-February 2023

Our class held a mini reunion on October 9-12 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Brian Boyer and his wife, Gretchen, opened up their beautiful log cabin home in the Santa Fe Hills for the opening gathering.
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September-October 2022

I am eating lunch in Coffee-Deli in midtown Savanah. A man walks over from another table and sits down. “Aren’t you Wade Herring? I’m a lawyer too.
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July-August 2022

Paula Holmes-Eber and her husband, Lorenz Eber, announce the release of their new book, Breathtaking: How One Family Cycled Around the World for Clean Air and Asthma, a fascinating epic recounting their family cycling trip aro
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May-June 2022

As life slowly returns to normal or the new normal, I reflect on how tricky it can be to get out of the Covid rut and reconnect with the world.
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March-April 2022

As I have written this column through the years, I have debated whether it should be timeless or not. In this moment, I am stuck in time, specifically, that odd week between Christmas and the new year.
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January-February 2022

During Covid and beyond we semi-retirees have struggled to keep ourselves entertained. I’ve been researching movies online, focusing on books’ various adaptations to cinema.
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November-December 2021

This August I had the pleasure of spending a weekend in Bar Harbor, Maine, with Lauri Livesey Sanduski and her husband, Jim. Lauri and I were together on the same freshman trip, when we quickly bonded.