• I must confess that I feel a twinge of jealousy when I see “Retired and loving it” as someone’s FaceBook status. Quite a number [...]

  Retired, and loving it

  January 30, 2012
• Believe it or not, it’s been almost 20 years since our 25th High School Reunion! I found the following video on YouTube recently, which has [...]

  Our 25th High School Reunion

  January 26, 2012
• Last week my modem died and we were effectively without the Internet for five days. Think of it — no email, no looking up business phone [...]

  Out of touch . . . and adrift

  January 26, 2012
• For some people, high school memories are not always so sweet. In fact, when I received Steven Lester‘s painful story, I wasn’t sure [...]

  From one of the quietest people

  January 18, 2012

• I must confess that I never had Mr. Leon Frankamp as a teacher, but I was most surprised (and delighted!) to find out that he has discovered this [...]

  News from Mr. Frankamp

  January 11, 2012
• What are the odds that we would have classmates whose names read forwards and backwards? It’s not exactly like a “palindrome,” [...]

  Wrong Wray!

  January 9, 2012
• When I wrote that I have lived in Hawaii since 1973, there was some speculation as to whether there might be other Burbank High grads who live in [...]

  The Hawaii contingent

  January 8, 2012
• Even though we received news of the passing of James (Jim) Castro last fall, we are announcing it to our class just now. Here’s some [...]

  Farewell, Jim Castro (1949-2011)

  January 6, 2012

• If you have gone to any of the Burbank High 1968 reunions, you know that there are several couples in our class — graduates who are married to [...]

  Close encounters with . . . a Burbank grad!

  January 6, 2012
• I’ve been absolutely overwhelmed at the reaction to this new blog! In a day and a half, we have received over 750 visitors and here’s [...]

  It’s absolutely overwhelming!

  January 5, 2012