Coincidences…

I was reading Salon this morning, or more correctly, watching a Joan Walsh commentary on Barack Obama, when it struck me, I went to school with both of them!
I attended Punahou School in Honolulu as a middle school student before I moved to Milwaukee and attended the same high school as Joan.
Let’s not make it sound chummy here, I never knew Barack Obama because he was a couple of years back and at that age even a one grade difference is huge, not to mention three. But we were on the same campus at the same time as best as I can figure.
Joan, on the other hand, I did know. I’m not going to lie and say we were the best of friends, but the school was small and everyone knew everyone. In fact, as you can find out in other parts of this blog, I attended our reunion this past summer (’07) and got to meet back up with Joan. We do, it seems, share a love of baseball, she’s a Giant’s fan (I think) and me, with no pro team in Hawaii, am a UH Rainbow baseball fan.
Aloha!