October 2025

  • An excerpt from “Just Walk Away – a memoir of growing up in the Midwest” Mom and Artie had a habit. Every morning as we sat at the breakfast table they would be discussing our next meal. Artie says, “What are we going to have for lunch?” Then at lunch they would be invariably discussing…

  • An excerpt from my memoir entitled “Just Walk Away” Let’s go back a little to when our family first came to Iowa. We had lived in Chicago for about a year and then we packed up and moved to Marshalltown, the county seat and the most populous town in central Iowa with about 20,000 people.…

  • A memoir Tomorrow I am three-quarters of a century old. Yeah, you heard that right. Seventy-five years old. Can it be? Seems like just yesterday I was messing around in the back yard at Fifteenth Avenue in Marshalltown, Iowa playing with my sister and brother. In honor of this momentous occasion here’s an excerpt from…