FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

You may think that a funny title...It smacks me in the face as I still feel like 30, look like 50, but actually will be 61 in less than a month. But to think that it has been 45 years since I was 15 seems like faulty math! At any rate, I received an e-mail from a fellow whom I knew not only in my Freshman year of high school, I actually went to grade school with him. We lived in Denver, Colorado at the time, approx. 1000 miles from Houston. We exchanged several emails and I learned that, like me, he had a career in the oil and gas industry, was retired, single, and living in the Houston area!

Last Sunday he called and we talked for about an hour. He was very easy to talk to as we caught up on the past 45 years. He has a ranch near Austin. is into woodworking and did most of the building of his ranch house. He spends 4-5 days a week at the ranch. It is located central to his three sons who are very important in his life, along with his grandchildren. I have written another email which he said he was looking forward to receiving when he got home from the ranch. I don't know if anything will come of this, but I hope he calls again.