Greetings to all my classmates. It has been wonderful to hear from and about you via e-mail. This is some of what has taken place in my life over the past 47 years.

aduation from Burroughs in 1955 I attended UCLA where I met my husband of nearly 42 years. (He graduated from North Hollywood High, also in 1955). I was married in 1960 and moved to the San Francisco area, where my husband was going to medical school at UCSF and I taught elementary school. Our first daughter, Lisa, was born there and shortly after we moved back to LA where my husband did his residency at UCLA and I did substitute teaching until our second daughter, Dana, was born in 1966. At that point I became a full-time mom. I have always kept busy with volunteer work and at that time it was setting up and running the UCLA cooperative nursery school. We moved to Seattle in 1967 and lived there for two years before moving to the Washington DC area. We thought we would only be here for two years while my husband did a fellowship at NIH, but we fell in love with the area and he was offered a permanent position at NIH so we have remained here, in Maryland, for 33 years and continue to love it. Our third daughter, Mara, was born here.

Through the years I have volunteered in the schools, and acted as room mother more times than I can count. I also volunteered at the National Archives in Washington, and contributed to a family dining out column in the Washington Post. We have traveled extensively to all parts of the globe and still enjoy meeting new people and seeing new places. Most of our travels these days, however, take us to see our children and grandchildren.

Lisa, our oldest child, lives in Short Hills NJ, just outside of New York. She is a psychiatrist who works part time at the university so that she can spend most of her time with her three children, Max, Ellie, and Jackson. Lisa's husband, Rich, is an ophthalmologist. Our middle daughter, Dana, lives in New York City and is a divorce lawyer there. Our youngest, Mara, lives in Philadelphia with her husband who is about to complete his medical residency. They have one child, Alyssa, the youngest of our four grandchildren.

After my children were out of the house I thought I would spend my time reading and knitting and perhaps taking on some more volunteer work, but as John Lennon said, "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." I was fortunate to co-author and have published two non-fiction books: How To Embarrass Your Kids Without Even Trying and The Joy of Grandparenting. I still knit and read, but now that I have caught the writing bug most of my time is spent doing that. I work alone now and I'm close to completing a mystery novel. I just had a mystery story that I wrote accepted for a book of short story mysteries, which should be out in a year.

I feel blessed to have the family and friends that I have, and feel doubly blessed to be able to reconnect with my high school classmates. I look forward to seeing you all at our 50th reunion.