James Johnson:  

It has been about 50 years since Cooley High School. That is a long story. Four marriages and three careers long. It was fun being a copy editor for a weekly newspaper in New York, but it didn't pay enough. I became an abject failure as a salesman. Then I got a job writing user manuals for a defense contractor, learned to program in COBOL and FORTRAN and eventually ended up as a data architect. That is what I am todaay, except that I am semi-retired, working on various engagements in the financial industry. This while attempting to start up a fourth career as a maker of wood furniture. Back to graduation day. I went to Harvard University and carried on a long distance relationship with my high school sweetheart, Chris, became engaged to her and married her the summer after my junior year. That union stood the test of time for three and a half years. A few years later, I married Lois, wife number two, a marriage that lasted twice as long as the first one. While the divorce was pending, I met Karen, wife number three at a New Yeaars Eve party. I must have been drunk. However unpleasant this marriage was, it resulted in the birth of my two daughters, and once again, I doubled the duration of my commitment. Once again, before the ink was dry on my divorce decree, I met and subsequently married Charlotte, wife number four, to whom I am happily married to this very day. I hope I live long enough to double, once again, the length of my previous marriage. In all, I have been married 40 of the past 50 years. My daughters have both started independent lives and my o...Expand for more