I feel truly privileged to greet you all as the new editor of the Devils Lake Journal. Getting to this point in my career was a long time in the making. While my passion for journalism began with my father, pioneering broadcast news anchor Max Robinson, it took a while for me to take that leap into becoming a member of the Fourth Estate.
In a way, my first move to North Dakota over 20 years ago started the ball rolling.
I was born in Richmond, Virginia, and spent my formative years in Washington, D.C. After my parents divorced, my mother, Eleanor B. Robinson, brought me and my younger sister Maureen and brother Michael to grow up in her home of Amelia County, which held a town so small (officially called Amelia Court House) that it was more a village surrounded by rural countryside in th