by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 19, 2015 | Opinion
If I had a dream place to get away from time to time, it would look like this: a small mountain cabin, a rustic porch, a cascading stream with a wooded slope beyond and no other houses in view. It’s a place for listening to crickets and birds adding their songs...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 11, 2015 | Opinion
We’ve all read or heard ad nauseum about Kim Davis, the head clerk of court in Rowan County, Kentucky, who spent a few days in jail for contempt after refusing a judge’s order to comply with the law of the land and issue marriage licenses to same-sex...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 30, 2015 | Opinion
Given that we were gone for a month this summer, I didn’t really expect a lot from the tomatoes, bell peppers, and squash we planted in April. The squash plants bombed on their own, though I suspect a vole had something to do with it. Tomatoes and bell peppers...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 25, 2015 | Opinion
It’s hard to know what to expect these days. While the stock market does a number on retirement funds, the bottom has fallen out of the oil market, which takes less of a bite out of travel. While traveling this past weekend, I thought it was pretty special to...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 17, 2015 | Opinion
I spend a fair amount of time in the recliner these days, keeping my feet up and either ice or heat on my hip, whichever seems to promise relief at the time (see the previous blog if you’re wondering why). While reared back and looking through pictures on my...
