Scott Robinson
A White Piano
The Kentucky Kernel was a powerful, even transformative experience for me. Two years as a staffer there set my course in life. Though I...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 192 min read
Pour Some Sugar on Steve
Def Leppard. The boys from Sheffield had experienced their meteoric rise during the years I was a young parent and still in the church –...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 192 min read
Big Generator (1987)
90125 had revived Yes from cold, grim death – not only keeping them alive, but supercharging with more energy and spectrum than they’d...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 192 min read
Hunting High and Low (1985)
This one, like Nik Kershaw and Mr. Mister, might baffle and even disappoint many of my musician friends. But in 1986, I was living alone...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 192 min read
My Car Seat Rocker
In 1982, I became a daddy with the birth of my son Steve. And a new phase of musical life began. I might quibble over my parents’...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 182 min read
Cereal Box Singles (1970)
Throughout the Sixties, I was growing up in Garden Springs, a suburb of west Lexington, Kentucky – in a church-music-only home. During...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 222 min read
My Couch Pillow Fort: Or, the Importance of Avoiding Hot Lava
Surrounded by hissing Gorn on the horizon, we huddled behind the thermocrete battlements, phasers and photon grenades at the ready as the...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 223 min read
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
I have no clear memory of a time when I didn’t love books. I remember reading Green Eggs and Ham aloud, cover to cover, for my...
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Scott Robinson
Dec 17, 20234 min read
Christmases
Our family’s celebration of the Nativity echoes as one of the happiest components of my otherwise emotionally patchwork childhood. Not so...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 17, 20234 min read
My First Beer
Owing to the title of this book, I suppose it’s only fair that I actually discuss beer, at least in passing. I was never much of a fan...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 7, 20233 min read
The Harmonica
It would have been the mid-Seventies, but I can’t pin it down much more closely than that. I was at our family’s ancestral farm in Piqua,...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 8, 20234 min read
Puzzles of My Childhood
I grew up in a Fundamentalist Christian world, an extended community of conservative middle-class families that took very seriously the...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 11, 20226 min read
Star Trek, Humanism, and Tony Campolo
Tony Campolo’s book A Reasonable Faith had arrived two years after I’d heard him speak in Gatlinburg, at the Christian Student Fellowship...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 21, 20223 min read
My Turkey Bacon Sandwich
Me (at keys) and Bob Holzner (on drums) and Keith Lloyd (on guitar) There was one bright spot in particular during the Highland...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 5, 20224 min read
Nerds: The Silent Generation
I’ve presented my own credentials above, and have stressed that this book is about the future – the training of the next generation as it...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 4, 20224 min read
The Nerd's Life-Long Accumulation of Random Information and Useless Knowledge
So I’m in the car and my two sons, Steve and Trey, are in the back seat. “The Federated States of Micronesia are actually 607 small...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 3, 202210 min read
Nerd Supremacy
It’s essential, of course, to think seriously about the challenges your young nerds will face, stacking up against the world’s...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 31, 202211 min read
Nature's Nerds
We must stress, from the outset, that to be a nerd is not an entirely learned skill. Nerds occur in nature: Gentoo penguins use D&D-style...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 30, 20224 min read
The Dark Nerd
Then again... Could Batman do a credible job of being me? Bear with me, here, I’m perfectly serious: can we ask whether Batman could pass...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 30, 20224 min read
The Dork Knight
It is natural, I think my Gentle Reader will agree, for any dad to want to be his kids’ hero. And, of course, when dad is a nerd, he has...
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