REUNION!

I'm planning to go to a reunion this September. My 35th High School Class reunion. Class of '75. How bizarre is that? (Well, for me anyway.)

I was a junior in high school when my mother went to her 20 year reunion and what I remember most about that episode was that I could not believe how old she was! Twenty years out of high school? Ancient! Truly. I couldn't fathom it. And now I have a mere 10 year old - 5th grade! - and I am going to my 35th. She must think my name is Methuselah. But it feels like yesterday.

Anyway, it has been interesting and fun and wonderful to hear from a lot of my old friends like Carey and Barbara. Sharon and John and Bill. (Some of us actually go back to Jr. High - 39 years ago!!) And some I didn't know well at all. But as their names pop up on Facebook and I see their photos, I think to myself "Now wait a minute. I know that name but I can't place the face at all. Who is that?" So I pull out the old year book and look them all up and GASP and GAWK. Because while most of them look pretty damned good - many of them are still completely unrecognizable to me. And then it occurs to me. I must be unrecognizable to them. Which means that not only did they age, I did too.

But that of course, is impossible!

And the weather is lovely here in The Land of Make-Believe.