Since I am one of the last 3 people on earth not on Facebook, and I have lived on the east coast for most of the last 40 years, I shouldn’t be surprised that I am a bit disconnected from my SLP HS friends.  It would be great to be there for the reunion, but it is the morning of the reunion, and it is clear now that it isn’t going to happen.  I hope you are all doing well. I’m sure you will have a great time this weekend and I’m sorry I’m not there.

Life has been pretty good to me so far.  I live in CT with my wife and our dog, about halfway between our two sons, one in NYC and one north of Boston.  I enjoyed my career in consulting, primarily at Accenture, where I was a Partner serving financial services clients.  I helped large companies develop software and adopt new technologies.  I wrote code when I started, and loved it.  I learned new things every day, was surrounded by very talented people, and most days I loved my work.  In retirement I’ve done some programming again, for fun.  I love skiing in VT, golf (started in my 50’s), running in the woods, reading (including the books and NYT column of one of our most prominent classmates), travel, online classes from Coursera and EdX, and kind of sort of learning to play guitar.  Also love sailing and scuba diving, but it has been a while for both.  Now I am a busy volunteer at SCORE (score.org).  There are 10,000 of us nationwide, and we provide free mentoring and education for startups and small business owners.  It can be a lot of fun — check it out.

What I miss about home:  old friends I haven’t seen in decades, the city lakes, the buzz of so much fun stuff going on in the not so big town of Minneapolis.  We just visited one of my old friends from SLP while in Seattle for a wedding, and it was great to catch up.  I know you will all have fun.

I would love to catch up with old friends (but may not join FB any time soon).  I hope we have a 60th reunion, and if we do, I hope to be there.