What’s been happening:

Twenty one years and counting since graduation. The important stuff: A great family (two boys, one more on the way), working for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - except when Uncle Sam comes calling, which has been an event of increasing frequency recently. Twelve career combat deployments (two on the ground), 156 combat missions in F-4G Wild Weasels and F-15E Strike Eagles. I've been supersonic two hundred feet off the deck, to the physiological boundaries of space (where you can see the curve of the earth) and on or over every continent except Antarctica - and I can say with some authority that the best chocolate milk in the world is at Penn State.