School starts

[homebrewer]

You kids and summer. I graduated high school in 1976. The previous post from the man who graduated in 1968 is so very correct: Time does fly by-- so fast you hardly know where it went when you sit down and think about it. Still, I don't think I'd want to repeat any of it. I had many wonderful times on the golf course with my dad and a very bad period following my sister passing away from leukemia in 1988. Effected me greatly for over three years, and still creeps into my mind on a regular basis. Life is full of ups and downs, smooth highways and narrow trails. You can only learn to travel them by actually doing it. I often think of a maxim I myself coined when I talk to younger people about life: "Listen to your parents; they have already made every mistake you ever will." So enjoy your time as a youth. Use it well, for as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (I think it was him) said, it's a pity youth is wasted on the young...