Articles – Page 2 – Gary D. Robson

Gary and the Wild Horses

3 Jul 20131 Feb 2026

I just searched through my blog to find something I wrote about my rodeo experience ten years ago and realized it wasn't a blog post, it was a newspaper article.…

Online Medical Information for Patients: Where Quality Beats Quantity

1 May 20135 May 2023

I have been pretty lucky as a freelance writer. There have been very few times that I haven't been paid for my work. In one of those cases, I was…

The History of the Kilt

22 Apr 20131 Feb 2026

Time to pull another fun one from the archives! This article first appeared in issue #81 (November 2011) of Renaissance magazine. None of the photos here appeared in the magazine;…

The Wrong Way to Promote Your Book

26 Jan 201330 Jan 2023

I originally wrote this article for Writer's Weekly back in 2003. It can be seen in its original form on their website. I've placed it here on my blog because…

Captioners: Remembering Your Audience

28 Feb 20125 May 2023

Back in the days before closed captioning was mandated, translated, and legislated, everything was clear and simple: captions were created for deaf and hard-of-hearing (HoH) people. Looking back through the…

Corriente cattle

31 Aug 20115 May 2023

This article first appeared in the May, 2011 issue of Acres U.S.A. magazine, which calls itself "the voice of eco-agriculture." At the time, I owned a small herd of Corrientes,…

The Beer Snob Explores Mead

22 Dec 201030 Mar 2022

This article was originally published in the November 2010 issue of the Local Rag newspaper in my "Beer Snob" column. Most people think of beer as fermented barley and wine…

Transmitting Court Documents Safely

1 Apr 20005 May 2023

This article appeared in the March 2000 issue of Law Technology News. The much-touted “Information Age” has created an incredible degree of access to information, as well as an expectation…

Logic Design Using Behavioral Models

22 Dec 19995 May 2023

This article first appeared in the January 1984 issue of VLSI Design magazine. In an industry used to simulating integrated circuits using either a digital logic simulator or an analog…