An Easter Meditation

An Easter Meditation

By Tom Robotham   Recently, perhaps because Easter is right around the corner, I’ve been thinking a lot about the lessons of the Gospels. First, a little background. When I was growing up, church was an important part of my life—the Episcopal Church, that is. I...
An Easter Meditation

The Value of Music

By Tom Robotham Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten. ~ Plato, The Republic. Lately, for a variety of reasons, I’ve been thinking a lot...
40 Years of Arlo on Your Radio

40 Years of Arlo on Your Radio

By Jeff Maisey For all of my childhood and teenaged years, Mike Arlo was on the radio, spinning a significant part of the soundtrack of my life. Today I turn on the radio in my car, and he’s still there, a familiar, friendly voice. When Arlo made his debut in 1975,...