Well, I finally went on Facebook. I fought the urge to do so for some time. My aunt kept saying things like, "Your cousins are on it, why aren't you?" My thought at the time was, why do I have to do everything they do? If they jump off a clift should I do that, too? But my BFF, Linda, kept telling me how she had connected with people from her old home town and then, Elyce, spoke of reconnecting with people, too. So, I decided to try it myself.

First, I've got to say that while Facebook is a neat idea, I'm not a big fan. Maybe it's because I have a dinosaur for a computer but I think e-mail is a far better mode of communication. Besides my whole wall is taken up by the things people I have friended have done rather than an actual conversation between us.

Okay, then I went the people search and found some people I would have graduated with had I remained in Georgia. Mandy friended me and we've exchanged one e-mail. I've poked two or three others but they have yet to respond. They probably don't remember me. I just wondered what became of these people and I guess I kind of wanted them to remember me and wonder what became of me, too. Then I hear myself tell my mother in conversation about something totally unrelated- "You can't go back in time."- and I wonder if it is really ever a good idea to try to connect with people from our past.

Still, I'd like to send a shout out to those who graduated from Manchester High School in Manchester, Georgia in 1983. I would have been among you if I had not moved to Tennessee.