ROBERT TOWNSEND
a series of life story posts
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, the young man, and truth
The novel is a pack of lies hounding the truth. Carlos Fuentes Robert Olen Butler is one of America’s finest authors, and his just-released book, Perfume River, is his finest...
Liars & Storytellers (3) (Background)
"Life's becoming better, sweeter," the poster announces. Deception begins with truth, however thin, The Great Famine, 1931-32, witnessed 6-8 million Soviet deaths by starvation. Indeed, in 1934, when this poster appeared,...
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 temperatures, tamarack limbs turn brittle and easy to...
Winter night
The Four Seasons The second-floor window looks west over a moon-lit landscape, black forest the border to snow-swept fields intensifying the moon's reflected light. Just above the SW horizon, Mercury...
Winter morning @ Farm
Hoarfrost: It remained on the trees, seemingly renewing every night, for the second week of December (2014). On other nights, the sky was clear and the full moon rendered the...
Upon a long road
Colorado's Mt. Wilson, an actor in the novel "The Wounded" Dubai Fountain. I look out on the pool and fountain. I have...
A Simple Plan
There is a recent novel, A Simple Plan, where two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane–the pilot is dead and his duffel bag contains four million dollars...
