by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 21, 2014 | Opinion
Something like 30,000 people were expected to meander through the Raleigh Convention Center this weekend for the city’s 29th International Festival, and I was happily among them. I suspect we could all use a little more color in our lives, especially when it...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 17, 2014 | Opinion
Don’t you love those days when you have more stuff to do than you can shake a stick at, but not enough room to shake the stick? I’ve got writing projects galore to get on with, not to mention Nurturing Faith videos to record, but my “studio”...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 14, 2014 | Opinion
I’m too old for this. Really. But too cheap to hire professional movers. So, with a promising sale of Susan’s house in Macon on the horizon, we spent the weekend packing and cleaning and digging a drainage ditch the inspector wanted and making runs to...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 12, 2014 | Opinion
When a child goes to college, parents can learn a lot. For example, I hadn’t known about one of the latest social media rages until my son told me about some comments another student had made on YikYak. Yik what? YikYak is an app, much like Twitter (though you...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 10, 2014 | Opinion
You’ve seen the signs, if you’re of a certain age and have travelled the big roads and the back roads of the Southeast or Midwest: black roofs on red barns, mostly, emblazoned with “See Rock City.” I’ve read that a single man named Clark...
