Cambridge Coincidences Collection

Myself and husband, 18 month old son and brother in law went to Rudyard lake for the day because it was a beautiful Summer's day. We were out on the boating lake laughing and joking when I remarked how amazing it would be f it were to suddenly get stormy and we were to be stuck on the lake. Almost imediately a storm got up and we had to row to the edge and hang on while the man who owned the boating lake came out to rescue us. It was very amusing to us, but it made me think. Someone suggested that I might have somehow picked up that the weather was about to change, but it was only because it was such a hot and sunny day and that the idea seemed so unlikely that I said it.

Shortly following the Paul le Mat/Fool coincidence, I happened to be watching The Invaders starring Roy Thinnes. I had made a special effort to catch this on tv as my partner was off work and had not known of the series or of Roy and I had urged her to take note of the classic series and of who he was. During the ad break, we happened to be talking about 'The National Tree' starring Andrew McCarthy, and I was checking online who played his father in the movie, thinking it was Art Hindle. Later, that afternoon,I had swapped channels to see 'Satan's school for Girls'. As I switched channels the star, Shannen Doherty was on screen with none other than Art Hindle! I checked online,and found that the movie I was watching was a remake of a version in which Roy Thinnes had appeared!!

Last month I purchased two gallons of tea. As I walked to my car, one slipped from hand and I dropped it. The plastic gallon container busted and tea went all over my feet. Twenty minutes later, I opened the refrigerator at home and a wine bottle fell and shattered. Once again, my feet were wet. Three hours pass. My husband places a beer on the hood of his truck. It slides down onto the garage floor. For the third time that day, my feet were wet.

At age 19 I began a road trip that lasted 19 years. The first 19 years of my life I lived on the east coast of the US, on Cape Cod. This "road trip" kept me in the US west for 19 years. I like to say my friends went to college & I went to the school of life. As I traveled back "home" to live, as a 38 year old, I was awed by the perfect balance of 19 years in the east & 19 years west, coming full circle, with endless "coincidences" in the middle. When I departed Cape Cod I had a BF named Johannah. People not only thought we were sisters but often times twins. We had met on the beach 2 years prior & instantly connected. After leaving Cape Cod I ended up living in an experimental city in central AZ called Arcosanti. One of my new friends, Andrew, had attended College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, ME. Johannah had gone there so I asked him if he knew her, he did, they were classmates. He asked me if I knew his best friend Prudence. I did not. Arcosanti had/has many international travelers pass through. I befriended a woman named Ann Marie who was traveling the US, from Denmark.