Richard is working with two companies that have developed sustainable technologies. “Crailar Technologies has developed the first natural fiber from flax that is a complement to cotton and PodPonics is the leading company in the world producing local, pesticide-free lettuces,” he explains. Robert Landon is the co-author of a new Lonely Planet book on Italy. He also writes for some design and architecture magazines, including Dwell and Metropolis. He and his husband Thiago recently moved to New York City, but they travel back and forth to Brazil frequently. Pictures of them at the most recent Carnival in Rio emerged online recently, demonstrating that Bob doesn’t spend all his time writing. “Carnival is even better than Hunt Cup,” he noted. Rory Muhammad is the associate director and chief investigator at George Mason University. He drove up to Baltimore for the Gilman Bull Roast. Michael Mitchell, a lawyer in Baltimore, posted a picture online of Rory, Chip Dates, Tony Murray, Mark Agent and Keefe Clemons around a table at the Bull Roast. Chip said later that the Gilman Bull Roast was a great event, but he added: “It was traumatic when the beer ran out at 10 p.m.” Steven Comfort is back to his 1985 weight thanks to a daily exercise regimen. He is also vegetarian (except on weekends). In his free time, he and his three-year-old daughter rollerblade through the parks of San Francisco, where he lives down the block from David Rody’s sister. “I enjoyed visiting with David when he was in town and recently caught him commenting on cases he worked as U.S. assistant district attorney on A&E’s ‘America’s Most Evil Gangsters,’” Steven writes. Steven is also in regular touch with Chip Dates, Kurt Schultheis, Rushika Fernandopulle and Richard Ginsberg through Words with Friends. In the summer of 2011, David Rody left the U.S. Attorney’s Office and joined the law firm Sidley Austin in New York. “Working for the U.S.A.O. was the best job I have ever had and likely ever will have,” he writes. “Aside from playing nose guard, being a federal violent crimes prosecutor was probably my highest and best use, to borrow a real estate term.” He adds: “Being a partner in a gigantic law firm is not as exciting, but it pays the bills.” Dave and his wife Anna are the parents of Jake, 5, and Eva-Marie, 2, leaving them in an eternal world of Spider-Man, Dora and Sleep Deprivation. “I have come to realize that, with kids, you either pay early or you pay late,” he writes. “I enjoyed my 30s being single in N.Y.C., but now am a bitter, out-of-shape, constantlytired old man at 46.” Speaking of children, Jeff Grant recently published an article called “What Do Kids Find Funny?” He summarized the results of a research study he oversaw for the Cartoon Network. The study included 36 video clips from a variety of shows for kids across nine humor themes, including slapstick, repetitive gags and bodily functions. The results, perhaps like kids themselves, are complex and varied depending on age and gender. Jeff ended the article by revealing the punch line to a joke his own children like to tell: What do you
get when you combine a rooster, a poodle and a cockatoo? “On the verge of laughter, my kids replied ‘a cockapoodletoo!’” he writes. “Maybe it wasn’t as hilarious to me, but after undertaking this study, I can easily see why they laughed.” Bill Buchanan has been in Chevy Chase, Md., for five years with his wife Julie and their 7-year old daughter Claire. Bill runs his own investment firm and claims “to be most happy when I am either on the golf course or when my pal Ted Winstead makes the short bike ride over to my house to watch an Orioles game.” Also in Chevy Chase is Joel Price, who recently had lunch with Bernie Rhee. “Joel is married and doing well,” Bernie writes. “He is a mechanical engineer and owns his own business.” In Colorado, Paul Dickey and his wife Cindy welcomed “Baby Kate,” also known as Katherine Emma. “Everyone is doing great and we are truly blessed,” he says. Leon Sachs is putting down roots in Kentucky. “My wife and I just earned tenure at the University of Kentucky (in English and French respectively),” he writes. “Our eight-year-old daughter attends a local bilingual Spanish immersion school, and to relax we spend time with our aging black labs.” Father Raymond Harris was on medical leave from February 2011 to June 2012 due to a sudden illness that affected his blood platelets. “As of now, I have had 15 months of stability without medication,” he writes this spring. Father Raymond received his licentiate in canon law degree at The Catholic University in America in May 2012. This is ecclesiastical degree that roughly matches a master’s degree, he explained. Canon law is Roman Catholic Church law. “Since July 2012, I have been keeping busy as the associate pastor of two parishes and working in my archdiocesan headquarters once a week,” Father Raymond continued, adding: “I have to use the canon law degree that the archdiocese paid for!” Andrew Balfour is the co-owner of a small business in Montgomery County, Md. “We provide contract-based home maintenance services to homeowners,” he explains. “In short, we take care of all the maintenance, upkeep and repairs on your home so that you can spend what little spare time you have doing more important — and more enjoyable — things.” Andrew recently got a call out of the blue from Steven Brecher, who is up in the N.Y.C. area. Steven is the COO of a company called TouchTunes Interactive, according to Andrew. As the CEO of the Eastern SuperMoto Racing Association (ESMRA), Tony Murray has been promoting the sport of supermoto, a hybrid form of motorcycle racing. The courses are about 70 percent pavement and 30 percent dirt. “Racers ride in excess of 100 m.p.h. on paved straights, slide through corners and tear it up in the dirt,” explains Tony, who spent three years learning the trade from a leading supermoto race promoter. Ed Barker became the executive director of a community-based farm and conservation organization in Weston, Mass., last summer. “It’s been a wild ride and definitely a turnaround situation,” he writes. “I’m
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