My oldest child is Elissa, who's close to 60 now. Very talented, very bright interior designer, and I have her business card if anybody wants it. She's really magnificent. She's working now in Westchester, Manhattan and Long Island, and travels quite a bit. Our kids have moved on. Peter, the oldest boy, is a pediatric cardiologist, very talented. Doing a lot of cardiac exams and is the head of a major training center at Emory, which has really blossomed as an academic center.

The twins have divided. They went to college together, but then grew apart intellectually. Neil is an oncologist in Westchester, probably one of the most talented young physicians in New York and Connecticut, actually, because he has an appointment at Yale now. Mark is a very skilled architect in San Francisco. Both of them are doing very well. Married wonderful women, all three of the boys, and they're happy.

We get together whenever we can, but unfortunately, it's getting more and more difficult as their careers get more complex and involved, and their own kids are more needy and demanding. I'd like to say we're close to the grandchildren, but never as close as to our own children. And the grandchildren are spreading all over the country, Arizona, Israel, and other parts of the country. The one who surprised me the most was the lone wolf who decided to grow very tall and to go into theatre, so he's at the Tisch School of Drama and doing very well and growing more and more independent every day.

We've traveled together, moved together. I think I set out our moves from New York to Seattle, back to the NIH in Washington DC, and then to Boston and then to St. Louis. And then back to Boston and back to Washington DC and back to New York. Each time Ruth and the kids were a little concerned at first, leaving their home territory, but each one of them adapted beautifully and benefited from the moves, I think. But the moves grew us closer together, the kids especially. When they were not with their siblings, missed them, and that was very obvious, how they communicated from a distance.