Contributor: Robin Weaver

Robin Weaver is a lawyer with over 20 years experience in strategic communications, government affairs and tax planning with a Fortune 100 company. She enjoys reading, especially history and biography, traveling, and movies. A life-long Anglophile, she also enjoys Jane Austen, George Eliot, and trips to London. Having grown up in Pittsburgh, she remains a loyal Steeler fan. For Woman Around Town, her stories focus on careers.

Catherine Grace Katz has written a wonderful story — until now untold — about three “daughters” and the role they played with their famous fathers at the Yalta Conference (Conference) held  in the Crimea region…

Why does Winston Churchill matter today during this time of isolation, social distancing and tough economic times for so many Americans? The man who spent 55 years as a member of Parliament, nearly nine years…

Ernest Hemingway has called Madrid “the most Spanish of all cities, the best to live in, the finest people, month in, month out the finest climate.” I had the opportunity to recently spend six days…

In between a two-week trip to London, I arranged a short side trip to Berlin, a first visit to this amazing city.   Berlin with so much history, art, antiquities, and greenery didn’t disappoint. It is a…

One of the most engaging subjects for anyone interested in 20th century English social history is the Bloomsbury Group and their impact on England’s social, artistic and political life.  The “Bloomsbury Group” as it’s come…

For anyone immersed in this year’s presidential campaign (and who isn’t?), Lis Wiehl’s The Candidate is a feast to behold.  Erica Sparks, the dynamic newswoman in Wiehl’s previous novel and series, The Newsmakers, returns to…

Whether you are seeking a new job or contemplating a job change, Jason Veduccio’s The New American Dreamer, How to Land That Ideal Job in a Nightmare Economy (WAT-AGE Publishing), can be your game changer.…

I once asked a travel writer if there are stories she wouldn’t cover. Her response was, “I don’t write about Asia because I don’t know Asia.” It’s apparent in Lis Wiehl’s The Newsmakers that she…