Nancy Taylor RobsonNancy Taylor Robson, one of the first women in the country to earn a US Coast Guard license to run coastal tugs, grew up sailing and building boats with her dad on the Chesapeake Bay. IN addition to Course of The Waterman, she is the author of three ther books, including Woman in the Wheelhouse (Tidewater Publishing 1985/Head to Wind Publishing 2013) about the six years she worked on coastal tugboats, first as cook/deckhand then as licensed mate, A Love Like No Other: Abigail and John Adams, A Modern Love Story, which takes the reader through the tumultuous, passionate and challenging life and lifelong love of Abigail Adams, and OK Now What? A Caregiver's Guide to What Matters, which she wrote with RN and longtime hospice nurse, Sue Collins while her mother-in-law was dying.Robson has been a freelance writer for decades. She has written numerous travel articles for Yachting, The Baltimore Sun, Southern Living, Chesapeake Leisure, and Coastal Living. She wrote garden articles for House Beautiful and for ten years wrote bi-monthly garden articles for The Baltimore Sun as well as occasional garden pieces for Washington Gardener, Garden Solutions, and The Maryland Hort Report. Her essays have appeared for many years in The Christian Science Monitor; one is reprinted in Chicken Soup for The Couple's Soul, another in Short Model Essays: Patterns and Subjects for Writing, 2nd Ed., as well as Catholic Digest and The Washington Post. She has written numerous articles on the environment for The Baltimore Sun, Chesapeake Bay Magazine (for which she is also a contributing writer), Southern Living, Maryland Magazine, and WorkBoat, Woodenboat, Annapolis Magazine, and Sail. She has written features, travel, profiles, culture, maritime analysis, reportage, and personal essays. The author, a University of Maryland Master Gardener and Bay-Wise certifier, has been gardening for 45 (in patio pots, college dorm room, a couple of apartment balconies during her barely-adulthood), on 1/3 acre for eleven years where she grew blueberries, raspberries, dewberries, vegetables, ornamentals, and herbs and for the past 20 on two acres on Maryland's Eastern Shore where she grows vegetables, fruit, nuts, ornamentals, herbs, and more. She wrote for the UMD Extension's Grow It Eat It blog for several years. She is a long-time member of the international Garden Writers of American (now GardenComm) and has been on the association's Sustainability Committee since its inception. She is particularly interested in planting for pollinators, including birds, so she won't have to take special measures to feed them or hand-pollinate her crops (as they must do now in many parts of China and some parts of the US). She has done book signings and talks for each of her books, a book tour for the Course of The Waterman and lectures and presentations on her work in a variety of venues. Read More Read Less