Day 100

Reading Time: < 1 minute I’m glad this Days Inn has a Jacuzzi; I was sitting in it five minutes after I checked in. This morning when I started out, the wind was wicked, and the cold never let up. Oklahoma must know that I’m still in town. There was a Freeze Warning to start off my day, and yet another […]

by Robert Schoen on April 15, 2018

Day 99

Reading Time: < 1 minute I wore five layers of clothing as I walked in the cold, windy, overcast, gray day. Fortunately, the 16 to 20 mph tailwind pushed me along a generally good shoulder from Big Cabin to Afton, Oklahoma. Only after Afton did the road completely degenerate, but that was just the last several miles. In all, I […]

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by Robert Schoen on April 14, 2018

Dr. Robert Schoen is a writer, musician, and composer. His book, On God’s Radar, follows his 2017-18 walk from coast-to-coast across the United States. He is also the author of What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew About Judaism and the co-author (with Catherine deCuir) of the novel The Rabbi Finds Her Way.

Schoen has composed music for a variety of ensembles and settings, and has served as Composer-in-Residence at Temple Sinai in Oakland, California, where Cantor Ilene Keys and the temple choir under the direction of George A. Emblom, premiered his original jazz-oriented Friday night Sabbath service, Bossa Shabbat.

Robert Schoen is a member of ASCAP and is the recipient of Getty Foundation and ASCAP awards for music composition. He and his wife, Sharon Chabon, live in Oakland, California.

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