Rules for Aging

Some of you might be familiar with the book, Rules for Aging: Resist Normal Impulses, Live Longer, Attain Perfection, by Roger Rosenblatt.

Rosenblatt's Rule #28 is: "Never go to a cocktail party, and, in any case, do not stay more than 20 minutes."

Rule #52 is: "Live in the past, but don't remember too much."

So how do those of us--anticipating the celebration of our 40th reunion--reconcile these two "rules?" We don't! Reasonably well-adjusted social creatures that we are, we reject the first as pure blather, and seize upon the message of the second, which is that living a little in the past is OK (and with the whole cocktail-party thing, we're apt to not remember too much, which makes it more OK).

The Ladue High Class of '69's Fortieth Cocktail Party...err...Reunion is Saturday, July 18, 2009, 6:30-12M, at the St. Louis Zoo, The McDonnell Center at River Camp. Festive attire!

Watch for your formal invitation...and for further developments on the planning of Friday night's activities.

Check in with us here, www.ladue69.blogspot.com, and register/update your profile on the Ladue Alumni website, http://www.laduealum.com/.

Live a little!