by Jeff Maisey | Feb 14, 2017 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham When I was in Oxford, England last summer, I stumbled upon a pub named “Old Tom.” How could I resist? Inside it was as pleasant as any pub could be: small but not cramped; a well-crafted but unpretentious bar; a few tables, and a few smiling people....
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 18, 2016 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant? ~ Henry David Thoreau Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about empathy. We tend to regard it as a quality that some people have and others...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 16, 2016 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham One night a few weeks ago, while I was scrolling through Facebook, a meme on a friend’s page caught my eye. At the top, printed over a photograph of a forest, were the words, “This is an antidepressant.” At the bottom, over a photo of some...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 12, 2016 | News, News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain, the only thing that’s real. The needle tears a hole, the old familiar sting. Try to kill it all away, but I remember everything. ~ Trent Reznor. In the summer of 2014, while...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 20, 2016 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham On September 3, The New York Times published an article about renewed efforts in China to instill patriotism into the hearts and minds of its school children. “Sparkling red stars and bloody tales of military sacrifice accompanied 200 million...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 13, 2016 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham On July 25, as the Democratic National Convention was getting underway, news broke that an armed man in the Larchmont section of Norfolk had barricaded himself inside his house after police came to question him on suspicion of vandalism. In a display...
