Robin Briggs
My co-author Joel Greer and I were neighbors in the 60s. We reconnected via Facebook in late 2019. As a result, in 2020 when COVID-19 was in full swing, we created the CORONA RICHMOND Facebook page to provide a venue for a wide variety of friends to talk about how the pandemic was affecting their lives - whether mundane or live-threatening, suffering anxiety or providing hope. All contributed to this anthology of short, well-written vignettes about their lives In the Year of the Virus.
I am a former law firm Office Administrator, now retired, living in Pacifica, California. I have always had a passion for writing, especially travel logs.
Joel Greer is a retired sports writer, spending the last 55 years in a variety of journalistic endeavors, most notably as a college football writer/editor for the Bleacher Report website. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.
“To be the child of a conficted or reputed witch was inherently dangerous; in one pathetic case in Lorraine a young couple were both accused, and it emerged that they had decided to marry after attending an execution at the stake of their respective parents, 'so that they would have nothing to reproach one another with.”
“[T]he witch appears to have alternated between being a terrifying enemy who could bring ruin and death and a pathetic figure to be despised and insulted.”