Resurrecting The Blog

By popular request, I will make some periodic updates to this blog. If you have questions about the 50th Reunion, another classmate or the annual Classes of the 50s Barbecue, post a comment here; we'll try to get you an answer. If you have photos, links or info to share, just send me an email with the info and attach photos!

Guest bloggers are welcome to join in if you have a memory, a challenge or an idea you would like to share. (Again an email is best.) I don't plan to post the usual memory emails which periodically make the rounds, so I hope you'll send personal notes.

I'm sorry that the Blogarithm link is no longer available, so please find another reader or check back often. I will send emails about a batch of updates as I did before so please make sure that your emails and your friends' emails are up-to-date.

The plans are beginning to be very exciting, so stay tuned. And thanks for reading.

With fond memories
Annette

Blog Readers FYI

Since I first created this blog, I have been interested in how the readership is spreading. I compiled this bit of information about the locations of the last 100 visitors. (AOL locations do not show up and most large companies with their own server appear as unknown in my statistics, so these places aren't reflected here.) Nice spread.

California: San Jose
Georgia: Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Blythe, Cleveland, Conyers, Evans, Grovetown, Lithonia, Pooler, Savannah, Waynesboro
South Carolina: Aiken, Columbia, Irmo, Myrtle Beach, North Augusta, Woodruff
Tennessee: Nashville
Texas: Arlington, Irving, Plano, Wylie
London, Lambeth

AAB

Two Words to Live By

This week in my personal blog, I wrote about my discovery of two words to live by as an artist.

Since they popped off the page of a summer "beach read" last weekend, I've thought about them and what they might have to do with life in general. I wondered if I know anyone who already knows those words and who has filled the decades with them. I could name a few. I have decided that perhaps they are what we all need as we approach our fiftieth reunion; that perhaps we are too old to be serious, dull and deadly for the remainder of our days.

So . . . if you can't learn from the grandchildren in your family, I give you "Joyous Naughtiness." Write the words on your bathroom mirror, post them on your computer monitor, leave a note in your pants pocket. Live them!

mreddie and The Blueberry Patch Blog

While reading through a good bit of Eddie Collier's blog, I discovered this statement: If you can't dazzle them with brilliance then baffle them with baloney sandwiches.

Composing most posts on a little voice recorder during his evening walks down by the pond, he has filled his blog with personal thoughts and tossed them with a little wry humor. He doesn't gloss over the good or the bad; just describes his daily life with a gentle touch. And, he never fails to let you know where he and God stand, out there by the blueberry patch.


George Eddie Collier offers a little baloney seasoned with the spirit at Blueberry Patch.

What It's All About

Who would have thought that a class reunion would generate as much fun and enthusiasm as our 45th? We just thought we'd have it and gather a few more names in preparation for the 50th. Well. It has grown like Topsy.

Our pre-reunion barbecue at the Murphey farm in Trenton is now an annual event which is hosted by Robert (58) and Judy(59). A committee works year-round to tweak the plans, include new classes and make it better than ever. More than 750 were on the list for 2006 and classes from 1954-196o came out to get "Lost In the Fifties."

Our class committee has worked hard to find missing classmates, keep lists of deceased and spread the word when an old classmate has moved down the street. I'll try to keep track with your help. I'll post obituaries, new addresses and updates, meeting announcements, and calls for Help! I'll use photos when I have them and ask others to write messages about their committees. Each post will be available in the archives if you miss something. We are looking forward to the BIG Five O!

So here are the IFS:
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Hope you enjoy.
Annette