Early in the year, I got an email from my High School classmate, Alison, who lives up North. She was going to be in Fort Worth for a conference in May and wondered if I might be able to drive up for a get together. At the time, I wasn’t sure what my job situation would be, so I asked her to touch base closer to May. As it happened, I didn’t have a job yet, so I made the drive. We were able to have dinner together one night. It had been years since the last time we had seen each other and it was so good to catch up. Dinner with Alison was one of the highlights of my year.