Tony Gray:  

(April 18, 2010) It¿s early Sunday morning and as I lay in bed trying to decide whether to get up or not it occurred to me that I should write an update on this page since my last installment had been several years ago -- particularly since I RSVP'd to attend the upcoming High School Reunion in July on this site yesterday. I originally registered on this site nearly 10 years ago to hopefully re-connect with old friends that I had lost touch with. In some ways I¿ve been successful and in other ways unfortunately unsuccessful. Some have passed on (Wayne Cherry, Walter Burks) that I¿m sure I will see again in the afterlife and others I have connected with via emails, text and phone calls that makes my heart sing! Gosh, it¿s been 3 years since I last changed this thing! Like most, some things have changed while others stayed the same. I now have 4 grandchildren thanks to Chris (Derrick, Devin & Kennedy) and Stephen (Isabella). Chris is still in Louisville and Stephen is now living back in Central Kentucky. My youngest Son, Patrick, is living in Louisville trying to finish up his college education at U of L. And, oh yeah, he¿s finally ¿out of my pocket,¿ if you know what I mean (LOL)! Mom is doing great and getting great care (living with Alzheimer) in a nursing home in Dallas near my eldest sister Evon and I keep in regular contact with her and occasionally talk to my sister Jackie who lives in Louisiana. And, what is really great, I¿ve talked with my younger brother, Jimmy, a few times over the years, too. But, the biggest change in my life is that I was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer in December ¿08 and had surgery to remove my Prostate in February ¿09. Although I am doing fine now and I continue to be Cancer free since the surgery, needless to say the experience changed my life. There was a Tony before Cancer that I call ¿BC¿ and there is a Tony after Cancer. All I can say about this has been said in a song recorded by Tim McGraw titled ¿Live Like You Were Dying.¿ In closing, life is good. Don¿t sweat the small stuff; you¿re not in control anyway. Live, Love and have No Regrets! Live like you were dying. . . (April 14, 2007) It’s early Saturday morning and I’m sitting here surfing the net and watching and listening to the DVD “Standing in the Shadow of Motown.” My wife has just asked me if I realized that recently I play this same DVD every Saturday. It hadn’t really crossed my mind. But if truth be told, the reason I do this is frankly because it reminds me of my youth. I miss those days growing up in NewBurg. Those were the days! Hey, maybe I ought to start a “blog” or something about growing up and other people would read it and submit their own thoughts? Nah, nobody would be interested in that. . .just a thought. A couple of days ago I decided to post some new pictures on this site of me and my family to give all the Classmates visitors that are interested a little glimpse of how life has changed me since the last century (lol)! And, I decided to break down and pay for the “...Expand for more