Jill Robinson

This guy talks first. He's got the build of an armchair a few generations of guys have sat in to watch football. He's talking about Mother's Day, taking flowers to the grave and then all the kids and their mate's and the grandkids went back to the house to eat...

I am old enough to have the clarity of perspective, which shows me the worst thing about the New Age is a lot of Solitude. But then, in Medieval Times, young people went to convents or monasteries for silence. To sleep in cells. And all cultures have retreats, or, times...

Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times mentioned in his article, "Put Occupy L.A. On the Road", that you can pick up an old bus for as low as $900. This could be useful for shuttling satellite Occupy forces. I might feel bleak about not being able to fit it...

Great to read Anna David's piece about Helen Gurley Brown and her impact on women's lives. Helen changed my life.

The year was 1956 and I was standing in the ladies' room at Foote Cone Belding, the ad agency where I was working. I held up my compact...

There have been many responses to what 'Geronimo' really does mean to Americans. But the impact of this name, and what it really meant to young men growing up in the middle of the last century, reached 'round the world. This story seems definitive Geronimo to me.

My husband, Stuart...

I wheel my husband through the silent dark hallways, empty rooms. Armchairs plonked square, heavy, in front of closed doors.

Stuart tells me, "This used to be an old movie star hangout. And there are still period pieces hanging out here who we encounter as we...

I returned to America from 25 years in London around a year and a half ago, really excited at the possibility if a lot of us got involved we could elect an articulate President who had some serious and good principles and wrote his own books. Seemed to go well,...

Up Where The People Are

You probably don't have much character if all you really want is to be famous so you can have your picture in, "Up Where the People Are." In sequins, at horse races, a program furled in tan kid gloves, on the red carpet, on the...

"You want to get there before 7 a.m.; the lines will be huge." "Be sure to get your receipt for your ballot." "Take snacks and something to read."
Who could sleep on November 3rd? Coming home from working in Obama's Santa Monica office, "You will not watch CNN. You...

The McCain Campaign is scrambling for any possible excuse to keep VP candidate Sarah Palin far away from Thursday's debate in St Louis lest she give a repeat performance of her interview with Katie Couric. With the Wall Street crisis apparently solidly under control due to Senator McCain's yeoman-like work,...

This is six months ago. I am moving home to Los Angeles after living in London for twenty-five years. I remember most of the times I moved in America; I was usually broke. Friends would come over; you'd have pizza, talk about what you'd keep and what you'd toss,...

I'm having a hot dream; I'm in a large bath in a white 2050 style flat in Shanghai. Young Chinese men in white t-shirts and tights are working on a huge scaffolding, but also peering in, watching me. I'm turned on by their attention. Now, I'm in the giant,...

This was the first year I've had a Christmas tree. We have two bright young people living with us in our house in London and lots of young writers from this workshop I run, are in and out. "It won't be fancy. I'll tie colored pencils on it." This makes...

I say I don't cry, except this morning when I couldn't fend off the fear. I cry before I go to the hospital. I look at the room my husband will be in downstairs, with the hospital bed. If he comes home.

I want him sleeping in my house....