by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 15, 2010 | Opinion
Earlier this week, I spent quite a few hours refinishing an oak table and chairs that some kind friends had given me. I sanded everything carefully and kept a vacuum cleaner at hand to keep the dust down. When applying the stain — which I shouldn’t have...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 13, 2010 | Opinion
I often watch videos while working out at home, and was recently drawn back to “Secondhand Lions,” one of the few movies that I’ve enjoyed watching multiple times.The heart of the movie is found in a speech that Hub McCann (Robert Duvall), an aging...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 11, 2010 | Opinion
Rev. Dr. Thomas Bland, Sr. died this past Saturday, at the age of 85. He had been sick for quite a while, but we won’t remember him for those last years of illness — we’ll remember the exemplary life he lived, and the way his teaching and his...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 8, 2010 | Opinion
When a large dam holding back a massive reservoir of highly alkaline waste from a Hungarian aluminum plant burst on Monday, the red sludge tore through villages and killed several people before finding its way into local rivers that feed into the Danube. Three days...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 6, 2010 | Opinion
My first computer had no hard drive, just slots for two 5 1/4 in. floppy disks — one with the operating system, the other for data storage. Memory for the storage disk was measured in kilobytes. My next one had a very small hard drive and took an additional 3...
