ROBERT TOWNSEND
My wife, Patrice, and I live in France.
Notes, North Wisconsin, 2025
Lower Pasture, Fall MERRILL Wisconsin In April (16-25, 2025), I booked a trip 'home' to Gleason, Wisconsin, as my older sister, Arlene, a resident of Pine Crest, was ill. It...
A Berlin Affair
Long ago, I started a novel, working title, ‘A Berlin Affair', set it aside, and wrote four other novels. I will soon again take it up. On October 7, 1973,...
Birthday in Berlin
Airlift Memorial, Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, Germany On my 77th birthday, 27 October 2024, Patrice and I traveled from Paris to Berlin for four days. It was disappointing.We should have spent...
Our Town: Gleason; Our Town, Chevigny
with apologies to Thornton Wilder I am a local history buff, intrigued with the ghosts that had walked the forest trails, roads and streets where I have walked. Â In my...
US election 2024
Sunday, 29 September, 2024. In France, we're good. My office is wondrous save that I must be disciplined not to stare out onto the horse pastures. and mist-draped hills. Financial...
Time of troubles
Patrice and I are living a near idyllic life in France. However, in late of this my seventh decade, I am concerned . Is much that I value in my...
New Yorkers
They take some getting used to! How New Yorkers see the United States. If three New Yorkers enter a taxi without arguing, a bank has been robbed. Phyllis Diller, New...
East Southeast France, Summer 2024
Rock wall along river This summer 2024 in SSE France has been exquisite. Cloudless skies, soft breezes, flowers blooming in succession. Morning fogs descend the hills burning off by 9AM....
