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...
The Tale of the Frozen Cat
We had lots of cats in my family when I was growing up. We had dogs too but not many of them; somehow the...
The Christmas Bike
It looked very familiar, that little green bike, but on the other hand of course it looked like brand new. The apple green paint...
What It’s Like to Run a One Hundred Mile Race
As in one hundred miles in one massive go, not over a six-month period. And not a relay race, but individuals each running the...
Along The Crooked Road
It really is crooked, that western portion of Virginia's US Route 58, tightly weaves through the mountains and hollows of Grayson County and on...
My Favorite Spot On The Planet – Featured Columnist
Our ankles are bound loosely, with a length of that scratchy Manila hemp rope. The other end of the rope is affixed to a...
How Did My Granddad Do It?
I'm deep into what we dentists call a crown preparation. The subject tooth is the upper left second molar, aka tooth number 15. The...