Photo by Mark Cruzat on Pexels.com On trips to the bookstore or the library, my mother would release us, my brother and I, like a Pirate Captain telling her crew to find lost treasure on an island. We would move into the stacks or towards the shelves of fiction in something just short of a... Continue Reading →
Lessons From the Shoulders of Giants
Fourth Grade From my collection of personal reminiscences on the great teachers I've had It was 1980 and the summer was gone and I was heading to my first day of school in a new city. I didn’t realize until years later the teacher waiting for me in that fourth grade classroom would have a... Continue Reading →
Finding Wolfe’s Shadow
I believe it was summer and I was 11 years old and as so often happened on those hot days, my mom took my brother and I to work with her at the library. Once inside, we got the warning to behave and then, she dispatched us to go find some books to read while... Continue Reading →
Some thoughts on my old career: Or, you gotta love photographers
So, part of this website is, I guess to let people know a bit about me and how I got to this point in my writing. Well, I wouldn't be here today if not for my time as a reporter. I spent nearly 14 years in that field writing on the topics of: sports, city... Continue Reading →
Robert Varnon -- R.D. Varnon 