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Category Archives: Family
Discovering love in the big city, or “What’s Cooking?”
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.
Posted in Family, Friends, Humor, Love, Manhattan, New York, Uncategorized
Tagged chocolate, cooking, eating, Family, fast food, FDA, food, governments, grandparents, habits, hamburgers, health, home cooking, kitchen, life, lunch, matzo, McDonalds, Monsanto, parents, pesticides, USDA, veggies, Work
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Take it from Carole King
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
Posted in Cats, City Center, Family, Friends, Loneliness, Love
Tagged beauty, bravery, cats, desperation, friendship, frustration, growth, independence, loneliness, love, New York, relationships, romance, the heart
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Motorola
“Your room,” said my mother, at least twice, “Is the warmest room in the house.”
Posted in Family, Humor, Raleigh, Uncategorized
Tagged childhood, comedians, East Coast, humor, illusions, innocence, television, the heart
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Speed, Control, and Happiness
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
Posted in Automobilia, Family, Humor, Iowa, Loneliness, Love, NC, Raleigh
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Mercury Blues
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
Posted in Automobilia, Family, Humor, Iowa, Loneliness, Love, Uncategorized
Tagged cars, desperation, loneliness, love, transportation
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What else happened the day typhoon Wanda struck Hong Kong?
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
Posted in Automobilia, Family, Italy, Love
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A short stop in downtown Des Moines
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
Posted in Architecture, City Center, Family, Humor, Iowa, NC, Work
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