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...
by Jeff Maisey | Jul 8, 2016 | News & Views, Robotham
(From Minnesota to Louisiana to Dallas, tensions between police and the African-American community are at a boiling point) By Tom Robotham If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, recreated from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us:...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 18, 2016 | News & Views, Robotham, Travel
By Tom Robotham The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. ― G.K. Chesterton The first time I visited England, in 1979, most of the people I encountered were British. That may seem like a terribly obvious statement. But during...
