Dennis and I have been together for 28 years.  Dennis retired from Boeing and I am also retired.  Dennis has 3 children and 7 grandchildren.  I love my hobbies.  I do Scrap Booking and make cards from Stampin-up in which I am a Demonstrator.  Dennis loves to go fishing and hunting.  We both belong to the YMCA in Auburn WA.   I love to do water aerobics.  We go to the movies and also like to eat out.  We love to travel and go on cruises.  We plan on going to Maui Hawaii for two weeks this year. We are looking forward to our 50th. year class  reunion.

! Has anyone noted the increasing rapidity of a day's passing? All those things we thought important, turned out not to be and those we thought not, are? And that place to which we matriculated in challenge to our futures;Fifty years was that a long while ago.... or was it yesterday?  All seemingly an amazing metamorphosis . Perhaps one needs more years to enjoy the discovery that the extraordinary may well lie ahead. 





  Missed the most? The world of international competative running and all its attendant blissful euphoria, camaraderie, and the personal explorations of inner possiblities. Even the bliss of all those collegiate years and the days of intense climbing and mountaineering are now with diminished character and relegated more to memory than today. Such has been exchanged for the gathering of cameras, lenses, and travel near and far to capture images and chronicle those often elusive, but magical and stellar moments of sporting excellence, if not  the humbling emotion of the occasional human deficiency.  





Now that I have been told my birth stone is "lava" and my insurance company has sent me a half a calendar, the message seems clear. A Savannah runner who has begun to retire the legs looks more to quiet spaces accompanied by sonata's in G minor that takes one to many places; to other cosmic worlds; to the ancients on a summers breeze, and to the mystical like a Giles Farnaby dream. Those things that  reminisce of a good life lie now in the mind as memory and in the heart as essence.  





Since semi-retiring from the passion of private practice, now consuming but two days per week, my wife Nikki, (of 43 years and clearly my paragon of light), and I have begun to appreciate our children's lives. (Son Chris - Art Director on such films as Castaway, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Ladykillers, What Lies Beneath & many others, and daughter Jennifer, earning her Master's in Psychology) Our meandering travels are endeavoring to leave some spirit prints on avenging souls. LIfe is a luminous artistry certainly, remarkable for its evoluntionary designs and inherent challenges. What is left is time to fall more deeply in love with all things and to architectually redesign the experiences of all our tomorrows.  We wish for others of our time, the riches of harmony and resonance, the kind that inspire deep breaths and great appreciation for the marvel that we've made it this far.  Happy 50th all.





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Fun reading all of those bios.  Life is an adventure isn’t it!  After Shoreline I entered the U of W where I met my husband Michael.  We were married in 1960 and both graduated from the U in 1962.  Our identical twin sons were born 1963 in Santa Monica, CA.  My husband was a pilot for UAL which took us to the east coast.  We lived in VA where I received my MA from James Madison U. I worked as a Speech Pathologist for 31 years.  After 33 years of marriage Michael passed away due to cancer.   After I retired, moved to North Carolina near our sons. Don was a professor at Wake Forest (now at U of T Medical School in San Antonio) and Ron is currently an Assistant Dean at a JR college nearby.  I am enjoying retirement – 2 grandsons (2 and 13), traveling and taking classes at the colleges nearby just for fun.