My wife of 22 years, Mary Jane Heinen PhD. and I hang out at Fish Lake in Maple Grove. We pretty often see my son Jim (34) and daughter Lynn Daly (their Mom is Nancy Burt Beecher, MD, '61). Jane is a senior director forIngenix (United Health Group). I practice solo office psychiatry in Saint Louis Park on Minnehaha creek close to Methodist Hospital. <http://doctor.medscape.com/leebeechermd>. For excitement, I am president of the Minnesota Physician-Patient Alliance (MPPA), a group of doctors and patients working for health care reform <www.physician-patient.org>

So, Beecher's world of water-based daily destinations renews a love of biology. It is a gas listening to and thinking life and health care with my patients, colleagues, and policymaker friends. And then coming home to hear the birds, smell the seasons, and see the ever-changing faces of the lake. Big bang. Now the human genome. Wow.

I got my family grandfather clock repaired last week. It was made in England around 1700. Tick tock, tick tock. I will be down to Northfield for June 16 Saturday Reunion. I am looking forward to seeing you all.

Make love, not war. Different at age 62. 

I attended Carleton from 1957 to 1961. As I recall, we had to graduate in four years then, didn't we?