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....
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 27, 2021 | Opinion
The sign said, “Radishes at Work,” and we couldn’t help but stop and see what it was about. Susan and I were visiting Winterthur (pronounced “Wintertur”), a lush thousand-acre estate at the northern tip of Delaware, a few miles northwest of Wilmington and about 30...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 20, 2021 | Opinion
A few days among the Amish can bring helpful perspective to those of us who happily turn darkness to light with the flip of a switch, hop into the car for a quick run to the grocery store, or pay the bills with a few taps on our smartphones. In an Amish home, a 2:00...
