Essays by Robin Black

Alum Robin Black (fiction, ’05) is serving as the February Guest Blogger at Gulf Coast:

Agoraphobia, Writing, and Me: Fear and Laughing at Canyon Ranch

I would pay a lot of money to have the emails I wrote my family and friends in January, 2003, from Canyon Ranch. I suspect they are some of the best writing I’ve ever done.

A little background: In January, 2003 I was nearly forty-one years old, the mother of three children, the wife of one (very patient and understanding) man. And I was a recovering – I hoped – agoraphobic.

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