I have spent the last 21 years living in the Bay Area, 16 of them in Solano County. During my years in Fairfield and Vacaville, I've learned that upper Solano County is a close-knit community. I learned how close-knit it is during a soiree I attended last evening.
A friend from my old church, E, invited me to her home for a holiday party. We sang together in the church choir. I went with another friend from the same church. (We attend different churches now). When we arrived, we saw a couple arrive. The husband, T, was a coworker from a newspaper I worked for in the early 1990s. The wife, D, is a friend and former attendee of the same church.
An hour into the party, a woman arrives. When we meet, I learn that she, C, worked at the newspaper during the early 1990s, where T and yours truly worked. When her fiance R arrived, it was a classmate from my college days. We graduated in 1983. C and E work for the same employer.
OK, this sounds like one would need a scorecard to keep up. My somewhat convoluted example explains how our web of relationships works. The degrees of separation among Solano County residents is small. So, the next person I meet in Solano County may be a friend of a colleague of boss or whatever. Mind boggling, huh?
Writing Diva
