There’s been a lot of good stuff for the family in the last two years (never mind COVID) since I last posted!

Joey graduated 8th grade, he started HIgh School, and became a long distance runner!

Elizabeth was awarded National Honors Society, graduated from High School, was accepted into the College of St. Benedict, accepted, competed in a few dance competitions, and performed in her last recital at Shana’s Dance.

Carolyn worked at St. John’s to help out with COVID protocols, planned an awesome grad party, and kept us all going! AND Carolyn and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary 🙂

Last year I made the very very difficult decision to leave Delta Air Lines after over twenty years in total, I joined Prime Therapeutics for a year, and this summer I moved to Twitter! I have a copy of my Facebook post at the bottom of this posting.

Obviously we were not able to travel much but, we did make it down to Florida twice, Grand Marais, and Wisconsin Dells.

Joey’s 8th Grade Graduation

Elizabeth’s HIgh School Graduation

Joey was voted “most improved runner” in Cross Country as he improved his 5k quite a lot and did well in long distance in Track and Field this spring.

Elizabeth and team did an awesome job at the recital this year!!

We were reunited with the Lenzen clan for a trip this summer to Grand Marias 🙂

We stayed in Destin around the holidays and St. Pete Beach in March (thanks Stan and Chiara!)

My badges from NWA and Delta

Standing outside of my office before turning in my badge

Here is a copy of my Facebook post from last year…

After spending over 20 years of my life with Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines, I elected to take a voluntary package along with 500+ Delta IT employees and over 17,000 Delta employees to sustain this great company.

I started the year looking at a way to be home with my family as the kids are about to leave us for college and beyond. I needed to re-calibrate on my priorities after only making a couple of Joey’s basketball games over the winter and Elizabeth coming up on her Senior year of high school. I loved my job and the travel demands were becoming even greater which was a great struggle. I saw a posting at Prime Therapeutics and applied.

My family is identified with Delta and we are a Delta family. Carolyn told me as we discussed our options, “I am so proud to tell people that my husband works for Delta”. After many tearful conversations and as talks with Prime progressed, we decided it was time for a change.

We are very blessed that I was able to take advantage of a voluntary leave program and I joined Prime in a new and exciting role. I have been at Prime for five weeks now and turned in my badge tonight at Building J in Eagan.

I worked with so many great leaders and people at Delta who have helped me grow as a person and as a leader. I have a huge debt to the many people that I worked with and am very grateful for the successes that we had together.

In my last days at Delta, there were surprises from my team and I cried for about two days straight saying goodbye and sharing of stories with my friends. I have a lifetime of memories and lifelong friends from Delta. I love my Delta family and am grateful for the 20+ years I had with this great company.

As I to transition to Prime Therapeutics, I am seeing the same people first culture that I am familiar with from Delta and I feel right at home. Like 500+ of my friends, I am onto my next chapter in life.

See you on the standby list, we are a Delta family for life!