ROBERT TOWNSEND
a series of life story posts
Bonne année
[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="4.0.9"][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.0.9" column_structure="1_2,1_2"][et_pb_column _builder_version="4.0.9" type="1_2"][et_pb_image src="https://liarspath.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Cafe-de-la-Post-1-scaled.jpg" _builder_version="4.0.9" hover_enabled="0"][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column _builder_version="4.0.9" type="1_2"][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.0.9" hover_enabled="0"] Happy New Year's Eve at 0700 from the Bar de la Poste, Semur-en-Auxios, Burgundy, France. The...
Semur-en-Auxios, France
Observation tower and portion of medieval Semur-en-Auxios defensive wall. Patrice and I are moving this November (2019) to Semur-en-Auxios., near Dijon, in Burgundy, France. Why? Because we can. We are retired,...
A Wedding In France
O n 10 August 2017, in Bergerac, France, my daughter, Michelle Elisabeth Townsend, married Nigel Howard. Michelle gave me 45 seconds to summarize before the assembled my impressions, recollections, hopes...
Perfume River – The storyteller and truth
The Storyteller and Truth Robert Olen Butler and Perfume River The novel is a pack of lies hounding the truth. Carlos Fuentes Robert Olen Butler is in my estimation the...
The Name of Things
A childhood friend on Facebook recently called me a Republican. On our playground sixty years ago, I would have pushed her into a snow bank. I was a 'bully'...
Winter to Spring, Northern Wisconsin
March 14, 2015 Over the last several days the temperature has risen from -30F to +60F yesterday (well, +56F). Nice. At below zero, tamarack limbs turn...
Winter night
West view, Morning, January 2015 The Four Seasons Winter The second-floor window looks west over a moon-lit landscape, black forest the border to snow-swept fields intensifying the...
Moscow: Deception and working truth [3]
Deception in Moscow, 1961 The 'middle morass' of The Executioner's Son, that miserable time when, between the sparkling first scenes and a dramatic conclusion, you sit in that writing swamp struggling to "The End." A...
