1986

I did buy the 2000 ver- sion Honda Insight. My 2002 Insight (the most exciting inanimate thing in my life) was getting only 54.5 mpg. The 2000 is a stickshift that is getting me nearly 63 mpg.

I like doing errands now. I like trying to juice more mpg out of my car (speeding up, then coasting down to where you slow down traffic seems to make that happen, but does elicit one-finger salutes). I like that I fill the tank only two times a month. I like that I am depriving some money to governments that want to kill Americans. I like that I may be helping the environment. Big battery replaces the rear seat, so Insight is not a good family car. For that, you want a four-door Prius. Enough about my car.

The performing arts solicitation brought forth the flamboyant (still) Everick Brown. He is an interior designer and owns EBhome, two retail home furnishings stores in New York and Connecticut. He describes his style as "modern classic with a global perspective." Rick has been featured on Bravo, the Fine Living Network and News Channel 12 and been written up by The New York Times, Black Enterprise, Uptown Magazine and local periodicals. He lives in Chappaqua, New York, with his bride and children Harrison, 13, and Lauren, 10. Semi-flamboyant Greg Hulbert still performs for his children. Daughter 15 and son 13 witness the air guitar "whenever and wherever a great song comes on (often to the embarrassment of my children, co-workers, friends, etc.). My wife, Adelaide, has become numb to it." They live in Foster City, California.

Once-flamboyant J.J. Jamieson of 12:30 Reps, Glee Club for a term, talent contest winning folk-rock band Crunch Island and white guy with BUTA (J.J. calls himself "pigmentally challenged") writes "my very limited talent as a performer still has some appeal to my 8-year-old triplets. But even they are starting to ask for new material." After graduation J.J. went to L.A. with zero contacts .in show-biz, but has managed to "crawl my way to the middle." He worked at NBC for 10 years, mostly as a creative exec in TV movies and miniseries, then became a producer. "I currently run a TV company at Warner Bros, with my producing partner Anthony LaPaglia (of CBS' Without a Trace). My basic goal of bringing people together for some sort of enlightening entertainment, excepting the pudding wrestling (see Collis 1986 -with Alex Rossides), hasn't really changed."

Andrea Strimling writes: "I live in Arlington, Massachusetts, with my husband, Tsering Ngodup Lama, and our 1 1/2-year old son Yeshe Dorje. We have two older children through my husband, Dinah (20) and Rinchen Dorje (15), who study in Germany but spend summers with us. Tsering is a Tibetan Buddhist lama. He has a small business in Cambridge, Bodhi Tree, where he sells Buddhist art and antiques. He also teaches Buddhist philosophy and meditation out of the store and provides spiritual counseling. Since retail is quite difficult now, he's trying to transition more toward Buddhist teaching and chaplaincy work. Our son has been recognized as a high reincarnate lama in the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. For my part, after more than 10 years working for the U.S. government (federal mediation and conciliation service) I'm now on my own, consulting on post-conflict peace-building, primarily to the Department of Defense." Andrea is also writing a Fletcher School dissertation on government-NGO coordination in peace-building and serves on the board of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, which she helped found.

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