Pearl Harbor – His Smile Lit Up a Room and Other Things to Say at My Funeral

The Venn Diagram of Marriage

Nothing says twenty-five years of marriage like taking a red-eye home from an event for your children, so naturally, that’s what we did on our special day. Lucia’s college graduation was this past week, so we made the trek to Hawaii for the occasion. We watched her walk across the stage and so forth, andContinue reading “The Venn Diagram of Marriage”

Remembering a Cousin Lost at Pearl Harbor

When he was born, we named our oldest son Grant Derby Laws. Grant became the seventh generation of oldest sons in my family with the middle name Derby. The first was William Derby Johnson, son of Ezekiel Johnson of Grafton, Massachusetts. When he was sixteen years old, William’s grandson Carl Spencer Johnson lied about hisContinue reading “Remembering a Cousin Lost at Pearl Harbor”