Jaffe

Re-connecting

Yesterday I received an email from someone I haven't been in touch with in over a decade. Mary Beth (aka 'MB') was part of a group of friends I had in college. In fact, MB married Brad, another college friend, not long after all of us graduated from the University of Illinois.

MB and Brad were at the Chicago Police Department Memorial Foundation 'Run to Remember' over the weekend, and saw someone running who looked like me (i.e., skinny Jewish guy). If that had happened fifteen years ago, when we were all in college, MB and Brad would have chatted and speculated about what happened to me and the story would have ended there. Now, all MB had to do was 'google' me and not only did she find out where I am and what I do, she also found links to my blog, and could have found about my Philadelphia marathon experience, and even links to publications.

I confess that I've lost touch with almost everyone I went to college with. Once in a while I 'google' some of my old college friends, but unfortunately not everyone has a last name as uncommon as 'Jaffe' and a first name that's spelled a little differently (in fact, according to this website nobody in the US has my name).

I met some great people at U of I. But since then, I've lived in Chicago, Philadelphia, London, and now New York City. Losing touch with some of the friends I've made has been inevitable. It's nice to see that re-connecting happens too...

P.S. MB, I'll finish my reply to your email tomorrow.

posted by Aron @ 8:15 PM