When I moved out, I was nursing a shattered heart from a broken engagement and making $6.00 an hour at a locally owned bookstore (since closed). It was the job I had all the way through college, and though I had gotten my degree six months earlier and hadn’t yet found my first technical writing … Read more
My first writing job eluded me for more than a year after I graduated. So for about eight months in 1993 and 1994, I enthusiastically and successfully sold Acuras and GMC trucks for Jerry Damson. It was exactly the right thing for me at the time. Damson was, and is, a top-notch organization; it was … Read more
I sorta wanted a Corrado way back when—neat car—but the ’07 GTI is the first Volkswagen I’ve ever felt a bit of genuine autolust for. I dare not drive one until 2010 or so. Even standing still, doesn’t that bad boy look like you’re tossing it into a switchback and lifting the inside rear at … Read more