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Scott's Circle
A tribute to Scott Miller - celebrating friendship, music, and memories through shared connections.
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Mike's Circle
Honoring Mike Szwajkowski - connecting people through music, friendship, and shared experiences.
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Tom's Circle
Celebrating a gentle soul who brought light, laughter, and love to all who knew him.
toasttom.com
Coop's Circle
Celebrating Steve Cooper - building community through shared memories and connections.
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I wanted to put together a quick framework for realtime sharing of thoughts, stories, and/or great memories of our dear friend Scott. Many of us wanted to give him time to be with his close family, but also wanted pass along thoughts that he and family may enjoy reading, seeing and/or hearing....Read full toast
Note on June 21, 2025:
As many of you know, Scott left this world. So much love surrounded him in his final days. It was incredible how many friends and family members spent time with him over the last weeks and months.
It has been truly heartwarming to read through the toasts I know were read and shown to him. Please continue to toast in celebration of Scott's life - whether you toasted before or couldn't quite find the words then.
We'll keep this app and site going for a while, so if a memory comes to mind, please toast as many times as you'd like.
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I wanted to put together a quick framework for realtime sharing of thoughts, stories, and/or great memories of our dear friend Scott. Many of us wanted to give him time to be with his close family, but also wanted pass along thoughts that he and family may enjoy reading, seeing and/or hearing.
One of the most moving experiences I have ever experienced was during a celebration of life gathering for my sister a few years back. Hundreds of people came from all over the country to share in her memory. I only wish she was there to see and hear all the moving (and funny!) stories.
We should share our thoughts about the ones we love more often while they are here with us, so I thought this might be good time to start.
From me to you Scott - I always have enjoyed those near real-time text responses to something in the news, especially related to baseball. Thank you so much for sharing your pro story tips which I recorded here:
https://www.drstevenmuskal.com/p/inside-the-story-pro-tips-from-scott
I first met Mike in the fall of 1980, on the first day of high school, when a pool of strangers milled around on the Elgin Academy lawn, awkwardly looking to meet one another for the first time. Mike came up to me standing by myself in my Asperger's shell and introduced himself. We became lifelong friends....Read full toast
It's rare that anyone has a friend for nearly half a century, but I was fortunate to have had Mike. Mike and I saw each other almost every day during those pubescent four years. We shared so many things and confided so much in one another. After high school and into college, we talked fairly frequently and connected in person several times a year.
Through adulthood even though we lived on opposite coasts we always found time to get together annually, whether it was on some kind of outlandish backpacking trip, over-the-top expensive ski trip, or joining up in another country to see a Stones concert in the pit close enough to hear the monitor mix and look up Mick's nose.
We were such good friends that we didn't need to get together all the time but when we did, the years would wash away, and we were back in the '80s again. We knew more about each other than anyone else knew about either of us. Mike was my longest, most cherished, and best friend on the planet.
When I heard Mike passed, I shed more tears than when I recently lost my dad, when I lost my sister in '18, and my mom in '11 combined. We all typically love our families, but when we love a friend, that's something special.
I firmly believe everyone should strive to leave the world better than they found it. I can say with 100% conviction that my world has been a better place because of Mike.
Rest in peace, my friend.
P.S. Unfortunately, we don't have any real videos or too many pics from the '80s aside from those in the yearbook, but I do have that partially resurrected Split Image documentary Kathy Karlin (Mike's Cousin) produced for a Northwestern Project.
I first met Tom almost a quarter century ago at a neighborhood gathering. Our neighborhood has been a tight-knit group literally for decades. During our more raucous years, we would have parties almost every week(end :). Tom always had a way about him that was so mild-mannered that you would never guess he sported a mohawk in the Bay Area years ago...Or so he said....Read full toast
As a nurse, constantly next leveling his certifications, the image of Tom ever headbanging in a mosh pit was just too much for even me to believe. Tom was stalwart. I always used to think of him as the quintessential working Mr. Mom, as Christy was often traveling on business. He also allegedly worked years ago in a bakery up north, so whenever we were talking about a dessert, it always amazed me that a person with "T1D4LF" on his Facebook page could be a dessert maker. But then again, that was Tom - doing the unexpected.
Years when he asked me to join him a "little charity ride" between San Diego and the Bay Area, while I thought this guy is pretty incredible - I politely declined, knowing that would have been off-the-charts challenging. He spoke of doing it several times. Amazing.
Tom, you will be missed by all. You were the chocolate to Christy's peanut butter (or vice versa?). Rest in peace, my friend.
-Steve
P.S. One of the last images I had was during a recent July 3rd party. Check out the upper left (and lower right at the end segment). Yup--he and Christy were like chocolate and peanut butter. :)
As many of you know, Steve Cooper ('Coop') left this world on June 27, 2025. Like many of you, Coop touched my world in many ways over the years. I so looked forward to Coop's arranged BP every Friday morning, not too early and not too late. I literally changed my business day to attend as much as possible. We always knew when to start over in the sequence, because he patiently waited to be the last batter! Coop and I always had delightful, often highly technical discussions from our Berkeley chemistry days to Patent law to even more complex rules of baseball......Read full toast
ChrisS dug up this short video clip which was so common for Coop - routinely going to his field of choice...