I thought about spraying Lysol into my mouth prior to writing this column, but the EPA told me not to. OK, let’s get to it! * Andrew Rice shared that he recently completed a novel called Ghosts of Ursino, inspired by his great-great-grandparents interracial marriage just after the Civil War in Mississippi. It’s available on Amazon for those so inclined. * Simon Dalgleish writes that he’s still in Mexico (16 years now!) and works as general manager of m2crowd.com, one of Mexico’s leading real estate crowdfunding platforms. Veh Vay says that the company is growing muy loco! Speaking of growing, Simon’s son, Diego, is 12 and swims, climbs, and boxes at a local gym. Simon and his wife, Laura, celebrated their 15th anniversary last year—ay carrumba! * Nobody believes me on this one, but I saw Kenny Fowler three times this winter: twice at the Falmouth Shaw’s and then at one of my daughter’s ice hockey games. Sadly, I have no photo evidence of the encounter. I also emailed back and forth once with Jason Jabar. He lives in Yarmouth. * Back when we could have friends and restaurants were open, my wife, Peg, and I had a tremendous dinner with Tobin Scipione and her husband, Soren, at Cong Tu Bot in Portland. I love going out to dinner with Tobin. I had no idea we even went to Colby together. (I played football, and she lived in the Co-op, so, you know, our Colby worlds didn’t really overlap.) Over dinner, Tobin shared some hippy blah blah blah and I acted like a meathead. It was a fun night. * Earlier this year, Big Earl Lewis married Becky Stevenson of Thorndike, Maine, then jetted off to Vegas for a fun-filled week of buttery excitement over Feb break (Earl notes that Elvis was not involved in the wedding). * Also in Waterville, Melissa Taylor writes that she’s still a pediatrician at Waterville Pediatrics, and she reconnected with Betsy Low Bowen this winter, as their boys played on the same hockey team this season. * Tina Garand Branson met Heather Hunt Swales for brunch in Boston, then they went to watch Tina’s dancer daughter, Emma, perform at Boston Conservatory at Berklee School of Music. * In lighter news, Jeff Sklarz organized a Zoom version of a very special Colby tradition, producing a “COVID-19 Virtual Lock-in” in late March. Dan Rheaume, Gregg LeBlanc, Ryan Sullivan, Jean-Michel Picher, and I joined Jeff and downed beers, snack cakes, and pudding with reckless abandon. So, you know, typical behavior for middle-aged men. * As for me, after 20 years in fundraising, I launched my own consulting firm, Rootstock Philanthropy LLC. Onward, as always!