20 years!  That’s how long it has been since I graduated high school.  It’s truly so hard to believe.  Yes, a lot has happened since the days of walking the halls at James Madison High School, but the memories remain so vivid and near, that it makes it that much more difficult to comprehend that my time spent there ended 20 years ago. I remember as a kid my parents and grandparents would talk about how fast life passes you by and the words really didn’t resinate with me until a few years ago…until after I had kids and it was then that we both seemed to get older by the minute!  My high school experience was great and I’m fortunate to still be great friends with a handful of my closest high school friends.  While the miles between us has kept us from seeing each other as frequently as I wish, the truth is for twenty years we have remained friends seeing one another at least once a year, sometimes even a few times a year or more!  My high school friends went to the reunion making my decision to go a no brainer (oh yeah and that fact that I still live in the town that I grew up in with the venue being 10 minutes from my house helped).  The night before the reunion Katie O’Brien had people over at her house just like old times…except this time we were all legal and drinking wine instead of Coors Light:).  Of the 350 students in our class, only about 45 alumni attended.  While I was a little disappointed at first that the numbers weren’t higher especially considering a lot of folks are still local, it turned out that the smaller numbers allowed for more conversations with the folks that were there, some of whom I am certain I wouldn’t have talked with had the attendee list been much larger. The reunion itself was a great time…I really had a blast and still had a smile when I walked into work on Monday.