John Robinson
JOHNNY ROBINSON: The Magic of Merlin
It’s technological genius. It’s revolutionary. Its a game changer. It’s Merlin the bird identification app on my phone. Created by the ornithologists, the bird brains, of the Cornell University...
JOHNNY ROBINSON: The Dream Machine
Best I can figure, I’ve been using the same alarm clock since about 1982. The...
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...
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...
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...