Category Archives: Family

Discovering love in the big city, or “What’s Cooking?”

Posted on April 13, 2017 by

  I moved to New York to find love. There are 11 million people here. The odds must be terrific. They have to be terrific, right? Thus far, I…have seen a lot of cute dogs out for their walk.

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Take it from Carole King

Posted on July 26, 2016 by

I may never be a famous writer. But right now, thanks to one guy’s clever idea, I can share my writing, my self, with a diaspora of friends and with people I’ve never met who live in places I might … Continue reading →

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Motorola

Posted on April 29, 2016 by

“Your room,” said my mother, at least twice, “Is the warmest room in the house.”

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Speed, Control, and Happiness

Posted on January 2, 2014 by

  Even after I started to work in my father’s real estate business, he and I meshed well only on our fondness for automobiles; outside of that, our gears frequently clashed. This was so, I think, because he had two … Continue reading →

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Mercury Blues

Posted on April 27, 2013 by

A couple of friends of mine just split up.  I’ve been his rock and driver for a month, since his wife got the car.  My car is now at eight years and 130K miles, and new wheels cost a bundle.  … Continue reading →

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What else happened the day typhoon Wanda struck Hong Kong?

Posted on March 22, 2013 by

On Saturday, September 1, 1962, the day Typhoon Wanda struck the city of Hong Kong, I was struck by a sparkling new plum-colored 1963 Lincoln Continental sedan. Utterly unaware of the disaster on the other side of the planet, I’d … Continue reading →

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A short stop in downtown Des Moines

Posted on February 25, 2013 by

Downtown Des Moines: Re-scraping my Childhood Skies By Russ Wollman When I was young, I enjoyed a certain distinction among my peers which had nothing to do with me and everything to do with my father’s ownership of  an 11-story … Continue reading →

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