Kyra Toomre certainly is growing up to become a beautiful young woman. Happy Birthday Kyra!!

Thank you friends and family for your various thoughts about the situation with Kyra. As a particularly close confidant (Susan) reminds me, sometimes teenage adolescents are proverbially just upside down. Often too, they eventually right themselves and proverbially take a longer path back to their true home.

The picture to the left was taken on the grounds of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Lori Bogard (Erik Toomre's wife) took this photograph of Kyra, her father Lars Toomre, and her uncle Erik during a May 2000 visit to the academy grounds.

Members of the whole Toomre family are fans of a good and vigorous walk. Year in and year out, one of the most popular American Volkssport Association walks is the one at West Point. As a consequence, the AVA walk books of the collective Toomre clan contain quite a number of West Point stamps representing the completion of yet another day with more than 10,000 walking steps. For those who have not yet had the pleasure of the experience, you are encouraged to look further into a visit and a walk at West Point.