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CC College: Writing About Cadillacs, 1959 and 2002
Posted on November 7, 2022 | 17 CommentsBack in 2002, I was teaching a class at Fairleigh Dickinson University (Madison, New Jersey) called Freshman Writing Workshop. Professors were always encouraged to come up with interesting topics for […] -
Auto-Biography: High Speed Assimilation
Posted on February 20, 2021 | 17 Comments(First published in 2007)[The previous chapter] My first glimpse of America: looking down on a freeway at night, with glow-worm toy cars. It was just like the picture of GM’s […] -
Curbside Classic: 1959 Triumph TR3A: My Favorite ’50’s Sportscar
Posted on May 19, 2011 | 13 CommentsAhh….1959…the year in which my Mom and Dad both conceived and brought this longrooffan into the “Year of the Fin.” I arrived home from St. John’s Mercy Hospital in St. […] -
Ten Years Ago Today: Auto-Biography, Part 1: Genesis
Posted on February 13, 2011 | 47 Comments[What to run as the first piece on CC? Well, it somehow felt fitting that it be the first chapter of the Auto-Biography. It documents the very origins of my life-long obsession with cars, as well as it being the first piece I ever wrote and submitted for publication, at TTAC exactly four years ago.