by Robin Kirk | Sep 6, 2018 | featured, Robin Kirk
I will say this for the Department of Motor Vehicles: everyone suffers. When I’ve had to visit one of our state’s 113 drivers license offices, I’ve noticed how every element seems designed to diminish us. You might be a multi-billionaire or just out of prison (or...
by Robin Kirk | Aug 20, 2018 | Robin Kirk
Thanks to Sarah Foil for hosting The Bond cover reveal on her blog! The book will be out in early December from Blue Crow Publishing.
by Robin Kirk | Jul 27, 2018 | featured, Robin Kirk
With summer vacation in full swing, I’ve been thinking a lot about what makes an ideal vacation. First, it’s important to determine which side of the vacation divide you’re on: familiarity or novelty? There are those (and I’ve been in this camp) who return to the same...
by Robin Kirk | Jun 16, 2018 | featured, Robin Kirk
Two summers ago, I spent a month in the Kentucky Knobs without a map. The Knobs horseshoe around the Bluegrass just south of the state’s northernmost tip. Unlike those gentle rolls, the Knobs are a ring of hills, or monadnocks. I was staying in a farmhouse near the...
by Robin Kirk | Jun 16, 2018 | featured, Robin Kirk
Sometimes, a newspaper article can have surprising repercussions. Last fall, I ignored the spate of coverage of a self-help idea called “Swedish Death Cleaning.” As I now know, Swedish author Margareta Magnusson advised the middle-aged to de-clutter their lives so...
by Robin Kirk | Jun 16, 2018 | featured, Robin Kirk
Just so we’re clear, I might have made the wrong decision. It was a chilly day as I headed out to meet a friend to walk around Duke’s East Campus. At a Broad Street intersection, I was blocked by a stream of cars whose drivers had not a single fleeting thought of...
