John Robinson
JOHNNY ROBINSON: The Dream Machine
Best I can figure, I’ve been using the same alarm clock since about 1982. The same one, just about every night since then. Huh.It’s one of those common old...
JOHNNY ROBINSON: Walking With Friends – Through Chemo and Beyond
It’s 6:00 AM, pitch dark and cold. I’m in front of my house stretching my...
Walking With Friends – Through Chemo and Beyond
It’s 6:00 AM, pitch dark and cold. I’m in front of my house stretching my...
Playing on The Railroad Tracks
My Aunt Flip and Uncle Walter lived in a small white frame house right smack...
JOHNNY ROBINSON: The Many Joys of Backyard Picnicking
In the warmer months we ate dinner on the picnic table in our backyard almost...
JOHNNY ROBINSON: Jokers on Mount Triglav
Our headlamps have been piercing the coal black, moonless night for five hours, but the welcome perfusion of the dawn light is finally beginning....
McAfee Knob in the Snow
We got a foot and a half of snow in the valley but I'm sure there's two feet of it up here on the...
Troubleshooting the Haunted Phone
My great out-of-town friend "Bobby" -all names herein changed to protect the innocent- recently built a new medical office building. It's a smallish commercial...
Overnight on Deer Island
It had been a while since I had spent a night out camping solo, and I was itching to do so, especially after my...
First Time to Dragon’s Tooth
"We better start heading back; it'll be getting dark before long," I suggest. "Yep," says Rocky, as he gazes westward at the lowering slant...
Come and Get It!
My mom did not have the booming voice possessed by some of the other moms in the neighborhood, like Mrs. Fisher for instance, but...