February 26, 2026

No Jeremiah. No Pollyanna. – A Guest Post by Roy H. Williams

One more time! A new inspirational message from my friend – known as the Wizard of Ads, Roy H. Williams! If you’d like…

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February 12, 2026

Love & …

This beautiful sculpture art is a design conceived by one Robert Indiana, and first appeared on a Christmas card created for New…

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Radios - AM, XM, and Marlin's Book
January 8, 2026

Marlin’s Story

When one looks at the radio pictured on the dust cover of my memoir, some likely think that the contents are about…

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December 4, 2025

Excuses, Excuses … or Thinking Positive!

Have you ever been heard to utter one or more of these statements? I’m confident that all of us have at one…

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September 25, 2025

Insights in the Night: A Guest Commentary

It’s been a few months since this commentary was shared by my friend Roy H. Williams. However, before this somewhat whimsical, yet…

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September 11, 2025

Where’s Greenland? What’s “Thule?”

It was May 1959 when my Military Air Transport Service plane touched down at Thule Air Force Base in northwestern Greenland! Not…

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August 7, 2025

Marlin’s Good-Time Picture Show #9

As I’ve been doing over the past couple of years … going through the vast collection of photos sitting in my computer…

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May 8, 2025

Marlin’s Good-Time Picture Show #8

Most of what you are going to see and read about in this edition of my personal scrapbook will be about those…

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April 24, 2025

Ambition and Happiness: Guest Commentary

At this point, I did not anticipate or plan to publish another commentary by friend Roy H. Williams so soon. However, when…

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March 6, 2025

Fear & Courage!

Tim Moore, Managing Director of the Audience Development Group, a radio industry consulting organization … in mid-2019 posted this commentary as part…

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February 13, 2025

Hope and a Future – A Guest Commentary

Here we go again … another heartfelt message from my friend – known as the Wizard of Ads, Roy H. Williams! If…

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January 23, 2025

The Turnpike Servers The Nation

The World’s Greatest Highway System … that’s what the Pennsylvania Turnpike was billed as when the first section of it opened on…

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