by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 28, 2007 | Opinion
Three weeks before Christmas, our son Samuel decided he didn’t want a drum set after all, and asked for a Nintendo Wii video game.We went through the standard rigmarole of trying to find one of the toys during the pre-Christmas rush when they were in very limited...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 26, 2007 | Opinion
The week after Christmas has always struck me as a rather odd period. Although some folks (especially retailers) go immediately back to work, it’s common for other folks to save enough vacation days to remain off through the New Year’s holiday. After all...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 24, 2007 | Opinion
Today’s paper reports that credit card trouble is on the rise as folks who took out bigger mortgages than they were able to pay are discovering that they can’t pay for all the stuff they charged on credit cards, either. Both delinquencies and defaults are...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 19, 2007 | Opinion
They stood like soldiers, ten ladderback chairs that needed my attention. We bought them in stages more than 20 years ago, as Jan and I were first setting up housekeeping in Oxford, N.C., then adding more furniture to fill a larger parsonage when we moved to Boone.We...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 19, 2007 | Opinion
… on my pin?According to the Jerusalem Post, scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have successfully inscribed the entire text of the Hebrew Bible – vowels included – on a gold-covered silicon chip smaller than the head of a pin.I remember...
