With the unfortunate death of the old “garret tree,” killed by a fierce late summer Ontario thunderstorm, at the same time that I was redesigning my website,  I decided the time had come to launch a new blog. So I shut down The Garret Tree.

So now Robin’s Weir will be my blog on  writing and life in general.

The name of this blog comes from my original late  1990s “blog” in the pre-blog era, now long gone, called “Elphin’s Weir.” In Welsh mythology, a prince named Elphin, fishing at his salmon weir,  found the baby who would become the bard Taliesin .  Elphin’s Weir had hints for web searching in the pre-Google era, compiled as I was writing The Creative Guide to Research.

Robin’s Weir will have a much wide scope.  Like the salmon, a Celtic symbol of wisdom, and the weir which brought the young bard to the world, I hope to bring you the reader, some enlightnment and some fun.