by Jeff Maisey | Aug 19, 2018 | News, News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham In mid July, I took off on a road trip to the Big Apple, upstate New York and New England. It was a great journey in many respects. I had nice visits with my kids, both of whom live in the city, my sister and brother-in-law, and several old friends....
by Jeff Maisey | Jul 16, 2018 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham In the final episode of Parts Unknown—shot in Bhutan—Anthony Bourdain asked a group of locals to comment on the country’s commitment to steadily improving its “Gross National Happiness.” It was a poignant moment, given that the episode aired two weeks...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 22, 2017 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Here and there does not matter / We must be still and still moving / Into another intensity / For a further union, a deeper communion. ~ T.S. Eliot As we enter the final days of 2017, I find myself reflecting on the past 12 months. It was a...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 20, 2017 | News, Robotham
By Tom Robotham When I was working for Hearst Magazines in the early ‘90s I got to know Helen Gurley Brown, the iconic editor of Cosmopolitan. She was a formidable woman, but a bit of an enigma. On the one hand she spent her career advancing ideas that could be...
by Jeff Maisey | Jul 17, 2017 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham We have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division and conflict and cynicism… . But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we’ll be talking about some other distraction. And then another one. And then another...
