ESSAYS AND ARTICLES
Summer 2024
If you haven't read Penny Guisinger's book, "Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions," you should. It will change you. I had the privilege of interviewing Penny for this article in the autumn, 2024 issue of Bangor Metro.
Summer 2023:
I got great personal enjoyment writing about my extraordinary Sutton Island neighbor and her magnificent home, sumptuously photographed in Decor Maine magazine.
Spring 2023 and ongoing:
Look for my regular "Maine Reads, Maine Writes" column in Bangor Metro Magazine, which comes out four times a year. Here is a sample from spring 2023, a feature about suspense writer Katie Lattari.
In April 2019,
my essay, "How Do You Help Your Parents Die," went live on Solstice Literary Magazine's website. Author Richard Hoffman, the non-fiction editor for this edition writes this about the essay:
"I doubt you will ever read a more heartbreaking and also enlightening essay about the ways we must negotiate and navigate the final care of our loved ones than Robin Wood’s aptly titled, “How Do You Help Your Parents Die?” in which she addresses every layer of that tear-stained, manifold question."
https://solsticelitmag.org/content/how-do-you-help-your-parents-die/
May, 2021
This essay for booksbywomen.org highlights my often uncanny connections with Rachel Field; it was published in Women Writers, Women's Books. Hope you enjoy, "Heeding the Call of a Mentor From the Past."
http://booksbywomen.org/heeding-the-call-of-a-mentor-from-the-past/
In this May, 2021 article
for Book Babble, "Looking to Find Your Voice? Let the Story Lead You," I talk about the importance of mentors in a writer's life, and about the search for voice and genre. Rachel Field's story went through an arduous evolution from biography to biography-memoir hybrid, painstaking, but ultimately triumphant.
https://bookclubbabble.com/looking-to-find-your-voice-let-the-story-lead-you-guest-post-by-robin-clifford-wood/
A Rachel Field inspired essay for Maine Public Radio's series, "Music That Moves Me."
https://www.mainepublic.org/post/robin-clifford-wood-hampden
September 2018
Check out the Bangor Daily News special section for Sep. 21, 2018, "Maine Outdoors and Adventure." My article about hiking the Moosehead Lake Region is the cover story, with lots of great photos inside! Here is the link:
https://issuu.com/bdnsections/docs/outdoors_fall2018_proof2 --
the article begins on pages 4-5.
August 2018
Here is a poem about getting old. It was inspired during a recent trip to Oxford, England, where "old" means something far more ancient than we Americans associate with the word. See this link, and turn to page 2! https://issuu.com/bdnsections/docs/seniorliving_fall2018_fnl
March 2018
I had no idea, when I submitted a poem about Guster to the Bangor Daily News in January, that my dear old doggie friend would be gone by the time it was published. It works well as a tribute, and I loved seeing his photo in the paper.
http://bangordailynews.com/2018/04/06/special-sections/hound-advice-a-poem/
In the same issue of the BDN was this story highlighting the wonders of Maine Huts and Trails. What a win-win situation it is when you can do what you love and write about it!
http://bangordailynews.com/2018/04/06/special-sections/happy-trails-a-maine-huts-trails-excursion-offers-a-uniquely-maine-experience/
November 2017
I had a great time looking back through my five years' worth of columns to gather material for this latest story - a Maine bucket list inspired by Maine's people. Take a look at page 14 in this Bangor Daily News special section: https://issuu.com/bdnsections/docs/proof
August 2017
"Going South," an original poem, appeared in the Bangor Daily News on Aug. 25th, as part of a special section for seniors. Here is a link: http://bangordailynews.com/2017/08/25/special-sections/going-south-a-poem/
To browse five years of columns about people and places in Maine, go to: http://bangordailynews.com/author/robin-clifford-wood/
To read the original column that led to the full-length memoir, My Mother's Choice: An End of Life Story, go to: http://bangordailynews.com/2014/03/25/living/my-mothers-choice-to-die/_
To browse through a year of sunrise photographs and contemplations, go to: http://ayearofgettingup.blogspot.com/_
For an introduction to Rachel Field, go here: http://bangordailynews.com/2011/08/04/living/conversations-with-maine-lifestyle/rachel-field-%E2%80%94-poet-writer-daughter-of-maine/
If you haven't read Penny Guisinger's book, "Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions," you should. It will change you. I had the privilege of interviewing Penny for this article in the autumn, 2024 issue of Bangor Metro.
Summer 2023:
I got great personal enjoyment writing about my extraordinary Sutton Island neighbor and her magnificent home, sumptuously photographed in Decor Maine magazine.
Spring 2023 and ongoing:
Look for my regular "Maine Reads, Maine Writes" column in Bangor Metro Magazine, which comes out four times a year. Here is a sample from spring 2023, a feature about suspense writer Katie Lattari.
In April 2019,
my essay, "How Do You Help Your Parents Die," went live on Solstice Literary Magazine's website. Author Richard Hoffman, the non-fiction editor for this edition writes this about the essay:
"I doubt you will ever read a more heartbreaking and also enlightening essay about the ways we must negotiate and navigate the final care of our loved ones than Robin Wood’s aptly titled, “How Do You Help Your Parents Die?” in which she addresses every layer of that tear-stained, manifold question."
https://solsticelitmag.org/content/how-do-you-help-your-parents-die/
May, 2021
This essay for booksbywomen.org highlights my often uncanny connections with Rachel Field; it was published in Women Writers, Women's Books. Hope you enjoy, "Heeding the Call of a Mentor From the Past."
http://booksbywomen.org/heeding-the-call-of-a-mentor-from-the-past/
In this May, 2021 article
for Book Babble, "Looking to Find Your Voice? Let the Story Lead You," I talk about the importance of mentors in a writer's life, and about the search for voice and genre. Rachel Field's story went through an arduous evolution from biography to biography-memoir hybrid, painstaking, but ultimately triumphant.
https://bookclubbabble.com/looking-to-find-your-voice-let-the-story-lead-you-guest-post-by-robin-clifford-wood/
A Rachel Field inspired essay for Maine Public Radio's series, "Music That Moves Me."
https://www.mainepublic.org/post/robin-clifford-wood-hampden
September 2018
Check out the Bangor Daily News special section for Sep. 21, 2018, "Maine Outdoors and Adventure." My article about hiking the Moosehead Lake Region is the cover story, with lots of great photos inside! Here is the link:
https://issuu.com/bdnsections/docs/outdoors_fall2018_proof2 --
the article begins on pages 4-5.
August 2018
Here is a poem about getting old. It was inspired during a recent trip to Oxford, England, where "old" means something far more ancient than we Americans associate with the word. See this link, and turn to page 2! https://issuu.com/bdnsections/docs/seniorliving_fall2018_fnl
March 2018
I had no idea, when I submitted a poem about Guster to the Bangor Daily News in January, that my dear old doggie friend would be gone by the time it was published. It works well as a tribute, and I loved seeing his photo in the paper.
http://bangordailynews.com/2018/04/06/special-sections/hound-advice-a-poem/
In the same issue of the BDN was this story highlighting the wonders of Maine Huts and Trails. What a win-win situation it is when you can do what you love and write about it!
http://bangordailynews.com/2018/04/06/special-sections/happy-trails-a-maine-huts-trails-excursion-offers-a-uniquely-maine-experience/
November 2017
I had a great time looking back through my five years' worth of columns to gather material for this latest story - a Maine bucket list inspired by Maine's people. Take a look at page 14 in this Bangor Daily News special section: https://issuu.com/bdnsections/docs/proof
August 2017
"Going South," an original poem, appeared in the Bangor Daily News on Aug. 25th, as part of a special section for seniors. Here is a link: http://bangordailynews.com/2017/08/25/special-sections/going-south-a-poem/
To browse five years of columns about people and places in Maine, go to: http://bangordailynews.com/author/robin-clifford-wood/
To read the original column that led to the full-length memoir, My Mother's Choice: An End of Life Story, go to: http://bangordailynews.com/2014/03/25/living/my-mothers-choice-to-die/_
To browse through a year of sunrise photographs and contemplations, go to: http://ayearofgettingup.blogspot.com/_
For an introduction to Rachel Field, go here: http://bangordailynews.com/2011/08/04/living/conversations-with-maine-lifestyle/rachel-field-%E2%80%94-poet-writer-daughter-of-maine/
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