by Lucia Robson | Mar 29, 2018 | Blog, Featured On Front Page
My Address Book Is Where I Find Myself Here’s how out of touch I am with modern technology: A friend called to ask...
by Lucia Robson | Feb 7, 2018 | Featured On Front Page
Aunt Sue’s Blue Notes My Aunt Sue passed away and left me a piece of her mind, or rather several thousand pieces of her mind. The 13,530 pages of her 1950 edition of the New Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia, in thirty-six volumes, cover subjects from A to ZYZN....
by Lucia Robson | Aug 19, 2017 | Blog, Featured On Front Page
Loquacious Scribble and the Tuesday Club “Oh, we can make liquor to sweeten our lips Of pumpkins and parsnips and walnut tree chips.” (Vexed and Troubled Englishmen: 1590-1642 by Carl Bridenbaugh) The vexed and troubled English colonists in 17th-century...
by Lucia Robson | Jul 13, 2017 | Blog, Featured On Front Page
On the Road Again The human itch to hit the road goes way back. Much has been written about journeys, starting with the epic poem, the Odyssey. Attributed to the Greek poet Homer,...
by Lucia Robson | Aug 20, 2016 | Featured On Front Page
This photo was taken of Mom and me 20 years ago on a trip to Arizona. 36 years ago, when I was working on the story that would become Ride the Wind, someone asked if I was worried about what the critics would say. “No.” I said. “I’m worried about what my mother...
by Lucia Robson | Jul 22, 2016 | Featured On Front Page
“The map is not the territory” is a relevant axiom when researching the past. That being the case, I visit the places I write about, checking out the “territory” from Bristol, England to Kyoto, Japan, as well as all across the United States and into...