Martin ScolnickI'm a retired engineer who grew up in West Philly and married and raised a family (two daughters) in California. Apart from writing advertising copy and user manuals for my own former computer products (ca 1984), my prior writing experience is in scintific and trade journals. I embarked on Maloney's Mitzvah as a way to better understand my parents' generation-to get a feel for what it was like to come of age during the wild 1920s and the turbulent Great Depression. I currently live in Oakland, CA with my wife, Susan, and our wild and crazy Australian Cattle Dog, Sydney. Read More Read Less