seaside woods, grounded for life

October 2080 - Tad and Tosha Harris are 71. Talin Collins is 66, Abigail is 65. Nina Shaw-Gothier and Benjamin Gothier are 64.

Tad thinks it's nice when the younger ones move in. They're not that much younger - not even ten years, probably. But they never had kids... that's why they're still all lovey-dovey! Because first you have kids, and then your wife eats too many pork chops and loses that nice figure she used to have. You see, Abby, she keeps herself nice and trim. Very pretty lady. Never had any kids to mess up that nice figure of hers... But on the other hand, Tosha does make really good pork chops. He just wishes she would use that treadmill he bought her a little more.

And of course, you have to have kids to get great grandkids, and Tad and Tosha have five precisely - Melissa, Zachary, Sarah, Sam - and leading the pack, Lucy, who has never been in trouble her whole life like she's in trouble right now.

baby dust, part 2

December 2078 - Adam and Heather Thompson are 25.

There must have been some baby dust dropped on Brant Street this month, because Heather and Adam Thompson just found out they are expecting too. Adam is more excited about the idea than Heather is. She absolutely wants children. Really, she does. But she's only 25 and rising very quickly in the research science world. Adam hopes she'll warm up to the idea eventually.

old friends and a little bit of nostalgia

January 2078, Micah Phoenix is 55, Sophie is 56. Talin Collins is 63, Abigail is 62.

Sophie and Micah have been together since high school - and what a little rebel Micah was back then! They're going on thirty years together soon.

meet the Nova family

May 2076 - Jeremy Nova is 60, Alice is 54, Stephanie is 16. Patrick Nova is 24. Chad and Riley Hathe are 24, Liza is 6. Talin Collins is 61, Abigail is 60.

Abigail Collins, Jeremy Nova, and Sophie Phoenix are the three children of Castor Nova. Twins are very popular in the Nova family. Jeremy and Abigail are twins, Jeremy's children Riley and Patrick are twins, as are Sophie's boys Hayden and Jackson.

Patrick and Riley are Jeremy's oldest, by his first wife Trista who died when they were just five years old. Patrick and Riley are a lot alike and nothing alike in many ways. He graduated college, she dropped out of high school. He's a talented and promising classical pianist living in the city, she's a penniless humanitarian living in the country with a house full of animals (her husband and child included!). But they are both kind-hearted people who love their families.