ROBERT TOWNSEND
a series of life story posts
Prague, CZ, 14-19 October 2026
Patrice and I met James R.C. and Daraka Cook (plus granddaughter, Finn) in Prague in 15-19 October. They have been my friends since 1970-71, when Jim and I flew with...
Deception Lexicon
Д Reference The Deception Lexicon The Cold War was fought in language as much as in hardware. Both sides built entire vocabularies around deception — Soviet, Western, military, political. These...
Suzdal, Russian Federation
Where the novel, The Executioner’s Son, begins. On a spring day in 1953 on Illian Meadow across the Kamenka River and beneath the walls of the Suzdahl Kremlin, Danton Larionov,...
Hometown
Gleason, 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 is always better...
Suzdal & The Executioner’s Son
Suzdal, a Russian Golden Ring city, and a character in the novel ‘The Executioner’s Son Suzdal, Northeast Russia, Early 1950s and The Executioner’s Son In my forthcoming novel The Executioner’s...
AI, the Creative Arts, and me
Artificial intelligence is at fiction’s front door. Like any innovation, it had advantages and disadvantages. You approach with care. The automobile gets you from here to there quickly and in...
Spirit Falls – Coming of Age Novel, Michigan Upper Peninsula
Spirit Falls is a coming-of-age novel set deep in Michigan's Upper Peninsula- a story of two children who find each other, and find themselves, in the wilderness. Two children. One...
Redemption
Soldier, Son, Father, Husband Yonder man, while his spirit was diseased, Himself had joy in his own evil plight, Though to us, who were sane, he brought distress. But now, since he has...
