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Welcome to the website for Virginia author, Robin Traywick Williams!
Robin is an award-winning journalist who specializes in humorous essays for newspapers and magazines. Her essays have been collected in the popular gift book, “Chivalry, Thy Name Is Bubba.” Formerly a feature writer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Robin recently produced a new collection of essays called “Bush Hogs and Other Swine."
The Norman Rockwell Tree we don't have.
There used to be a feature in one of the women’s magazines of the ‘60s called “Can This Marriage Be Saved?” (The publication of this feature foreshadowed the invention of divorce in the 1970s.) In each issue, the reporter described a couple who had reached an...
Robin Williams appears at another book-signing.
After a VERY successful book signing in Lynchburg last weekend, I'm headed to Westbury Pharmacy this weekend. I'll be signing from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Please come see me and pick up a great gift for that hard-to-buy-for person.
On Thursday night, 6-9, and Friday morning, 9-12, come see...
Momma has always wanted a department-store-window tree, like this one at Strange's Florist.
Momma has always wanted a really terrific-looking, interior-decorator, department-store-window Christmas tree. She has talked about doing a theme tree, where every ornament is a wooden soldier or a dove or a bell or something. And she has talked about a tree all in white or all in red....
Get your copies of "Bush Hogs" and "Bubba" autographed by the author!
I have recently recovered from WRITER'S CRAMP, incurred while SIGNING BOOKS at the Manakin Holiday Market, and I'm ready for a new venue!
I'll be in my hometown of LYNCHBURG, VA on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011, for a book signing at GIVENS BOOKS, a great indie bookstore located at 2236...
Would you buy a used pet from these people?
A few years ago, I told our friends from out of state that while I loved seeing the annual Christmas card picture of their children – and, indeed, I saved them in an album – I wanted to see the grownups, too. Unless they have a really good cosmetic surgeon, friends from 20 years ago...
What if you ate poison ivy in a pie?
What, I mused recently to a friend, is poison ivy good for?
I had spent the afternoon pulling long tendrils of poison ivy vine out of a large flower bed, ripping the runners from under the daylilies, watching as they...
Candidates work hard to attract attention.
My daddy ran for the House of Delegates twice. My mother ran for the House of Delegates once and for Congress once (notably, as the first woman from Virginia on a major party ticket). I ran for the House of Delegates once. Despite some close brushes with victory, the family record, so...
Business Pro pushes bags to the weight limit.
On a bright blue and yellow day in October, we put our daughter on a plane to Australia, where she will launch her career with A Real Job. As she put her computer, her boots and her shoulder bag in trays and marched through the scanner, we wandered off to the parking lot. By the time her...
Mountain roads make me carsick!
In the family lore there is a story illustrating my inborn competitive drive. It seems the three of us children were being called upon to perform in some manner before our aunts and uncles, and I was being disruptive during my brother's performance.
"What is the matter with you?"...
Changing a tire, even a tractor tire, is the quintessential act of chivalry.
Every now and then, it seems, certain people fret and gnash their teeth and declare in great despair that chivalry is dead.
Chivalry is not the display of social graces in a situation where nothing is lost by their omission (and I'm the first to say social graces should be...