Thoughtful choices (and good luck) can make a rewarding life. My wife Marilyn and I have two wonderful daughters, and a new grandson to go with our three year old granddaughter. For about thirty years, my brother Jonathan (MC 70) and I managed the Smarties candy business we inherited from our father, and now our daughters have taken over adding their millennial ideas. About a dozen years ago, for brain diversification Ienrolled in graduate school at Drew University. Taking one class a term soon brought a Master’s degree (somewhat unintentionally, since the point was just to keep learning). Then a class on Wordsworth pointed to rich associations between that poet and Charles Darwin, and a successful doctoral dissertation about creativity – after five years of research into why Darwin was the first to figure out natural selection. Now I am turning “The Roots of Charles Darwin’s Creativity” into a book, so if anyone knows a sympathetic agent please let me know (deefam2@gmail.com). Starting to publish at 66 seems a propitious beginning to the next phase of life.