Of Birthdays and Reunions

I am NOT here looking for wishes or presents, but today is my birthday. It’s not a momentous year, no special numerical significance, no new decade. I’m not yet aged (although I’m further along in the fifth decade than I like to admit) and I don’t feel old. Usually I don’t feel mature either, but that’s a slightly different topic. I mention it today because my birthday this year coincided with my 40th high school class reunion. And that truly did give me pause.

Forty years is a heckuva long ti...