That time has come again. Off to fly to the other side of the world to be with my parents for a couple of days. This time dad has said that he won’t let me go anywhere else – he wants me to stay at home the whole time. And mom has said she wants to go see her sister’s newborn first grandchild.

I am fairly sure, I am going to take a few hours out to go dig up my past and create intersection points again. Last time, I went from pillar to post to meet as many of the parents of my friends as I could. This time, my goal is to track down a few of my old elementary and middle school teachers and visit them to thank them. It would be interesting to see if they can remember me from the thousands and thousands of students they would have taught in their lifetime…