Jim Raisanen:  

Life 2006 (Thirty Year Reunion) 30 years ago, in the year 1976, Mary Carroll High School graduated the bicentennial class. Everything was red, white, and blue, a star spangled banner, an American Revolution. Graduation day was one of the happiest times of my life. Tomorrow was my future but for me now, it is just another day. I thought I had what it took; looks, brains, and muscle. I had no fear of obligations, or rejections. I had hopes, aspirations, ideas, and dreams. Each year I could reflect on the past and look proudly toward the future. I was going to climb Mount Everest, swim the English Channel, start a Fortune 500 Company, write a book, play Hamlet, and learn to play the piano. But time is marching on and my arteries are clogging. My head hurts, my back aches, my knees creak, I’m losing my vision, my hearing, my hair, my mind, my stomach is getting larger and I’m just getting old. Am I just a 48 year old that has lived an undistinguished, meaningless life? My kids; Craig Alan (18) a freshman at Tulsa University, Charles Aaron (16) a sophomore at Fort Bend Austin, are calling me a fossil, one preserved in stone. My wife; Clair Gary (c...Expand for more