Joleen Ashman Robinson
JOLEEN ASHMAN ROBINSON lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
Out in Left Field (A True Story)
Articles/Essays – Volume 25, No. 2
With apprehension I agreed to allow the new girl at Manetamers to cut my hair. Really I had no choice. My hairdresser had run off to Texas with one of the sales reps in the…
Read moreBabies, Berries, and Santa Claus (from a collection of Mostly True Stories)
Articles/Essays – Volume 25, No. 4
My cousin Charles chomped down handfuls of the red honey suckle berries that my parents said were poison. And he didn’t die. No, sir—e. He grinned, the little seeds clinging to his gums, and said,…
Read moreThe Sweetness of Cherry Coke
Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 2
Sometimes instead of walking the four blocks home after Sunday school I’d walk the block and a half downtown to the Millard County Courthouse in Fillmore, Utah, where my father worked as the county clerk. I loved the symmetrical purple brick building in the center of Fillmore’s Main Street.
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