by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 1, 2021 | Opinion
‘Tis the season – not just the Advent or Christmas season, but the time when charitable organizations pull out all the stops to solicit donations before the end of the year. And it started well before “Giving Tuesday,” the follow-up to “Black Friday,” “Small Business...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 24, 2021 | Opinion
Occasionally I get the opportunity to do a presentation that grew from my friendship with the late Fred Rogers, of “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.” Though I doubt he’ll ever be canonized, Fred was about the closest thing to a saint that I ever knew, and his constant...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 17, 2021 | Opinion
We were out for a walk on Sunday afternoon, wearing jackets appropriate for the brisk 50-degree temperature. I had even donned my Georgia football cap, but still felt a little chilly. The fall colors are gorgeous this year, if not a bit late, and most houses in our...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 10, 2021 | Opinion
I wanted to be an astronaut. Of course I did. I was a wide-eyed nine-year-old in 1961 when Alan Shepard became the first American in space, riding the Freedom 7 atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket on a 15-minute suborbital flight. I had just reached double digits when John...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 3, 2021 | Opinion
Education stands out as one of the many casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic, and not just for the reasons we would suspect. Children of all ages, along with students in higher education, either missed a lot of classes, or had to switch to remote learning, or both....
