2025, December 30: I don’t even contradance but these two do

I was in Dallas visiting my friend MW and happened to meet one of her nieces visiting from Houston. We were chatting about school and careers and life when I asked her about her t-shirt that said Pinewood 100 on it. She said it was a dance camp in Massachusetts that she went to for a week last summer. I asked what kind of dance they did there and she said folk dance, contra dance, and others. I said, "Contra dancing? That's really popular in New England. My friend MB in Maine loves contra dancing." She looked at me and contemplated for a moment and then said, “MB?" Yep, CW from Houston has a new friend from Pinewood: my colleague and friend MB in Maine, and we discovered the connection while randomly in Dallas at the same time. (And yes, it’s the same MB from 2009, July 27 “The Miracle of the Moving Boxes.”)