Twenty Years Later

I had a wonderful thing happen to me at a meeting I had to attend on Thursday for school. A lady came up to me and asked if I was Lisa Williams, and I said I used to be, and she said, "Do you know who I am?"

And believe it or not, I did.

When I was a freshman at NC State, I met lots of people, especially as part of the Teaching Fellows Program. I met September there, and we are still friends to this day. I also met a girl named Debbie White, who was from New Bern, and who was married and pregnant, but her husband was in the Marines, so she was living in the dorms like we were.

Debbie White is now Debra Kinsey, and get this, is the Assistant Principal at John Cotten Tayloe right here in Washington. Amazing!

I am actually tickled to death to reconnect with her. We exchanged some information about our lives, and I told her Sep would not believe it when I told her - and she didn't. So now we are going to try to get together here in Washington - if I can get Sep down here - and have a good old remember when session.

So, I was thinking, I have some pictures from our wonderful journeys we took as Teaching Fellows - lovely shots of people that look a little like the people I know now. But what is really cool about this picture I am including here is the date on the back of it - May 1988 - twenty years ago - when in the hell did I ever get to be this old?

So enjoy folks! (Debbie is the one in the middle, and Sep is the one on the right.)