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What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.

That's the fun of going to a high school reunion: it's seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past.

I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first alumni reunion dance. I got all the names and addresses out of the yearbook. It came off very well.

I think everyone at some point in their career would like the opportunity to go back to their alma mater, but from a timing standpoint, it's just never worked.

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

Let's put it this way: there wouldn't be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn't be anybody there. We'd struggle to raise a quorum.

If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.

On the whole, I think I spent a lot of high school just trying to stay under the radar: I don't think I was all that memorable.

All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.