Ricky Skaggs singing “Somebody’s Praying”
Dec 29, 2008
Ricky Skaggs has achieved great success in the music world in several genres. He is best known for his many Top-10 Country hits of course, but his real love has always been Bluegrass and Gospel music.
After making his fortune in the Country Music world, he ultimately returned to his Bluegrass and [...]
Back when Hollywood loved America
Dec 28, 2008
This afternoon I spent a couple of hours doing something that I hadn’t done in ages: I watched an old war movie on TV. As I sat there watching John Wayne mold his young recruits into lean, mean fighting machines and then lead them to victory in the 1949 classic “Sands of Iwo Jima”, I [...]
My grandparents’ herbal remedies
Dec 27, 2008
My paternal grandparents raised a houseful of children on a very meager income back in the days when cold, hard cash was quite hard to come by. They didn’t have insurance, so trips to the doctor were reserved only for the most serious of conditions. How did they manage to raise right at a dozen [...]
The common cold
Dec 27, 2008
Well, it’s cold season again, and although I have been surrounded by people who were coughing and sneezing their heads off for several weeks, I had thus far managed to avoid the irritating little virus until today.
I began the day with that tell-tale scratchy throat and the occasional sneeze that almost always goes along with [...]
My thoughts on Global Warming
Dec 22, 2008
“Global warming” is a hot-button issue that has transformed the political landscape and polarized our nation’s population almost as much as the war in Iraq. Scientists in the global warming camp tell us that we must act NOW to minimize the damage caused by greenhouse gases and stop the phenomenon altogether before it reaches a [...]
“Hot Wheels”
Dec 22, 2008
When I was a boy way back in the late 1960’s, I had dozens of “Hot Wheels” cars scattered all over my bedroom floor. And those little cars were simply amazing. They were made of tough-as-nails steel, they ran on their very own dedicated racetracks, and wow, could those things really fly!
Well, it’s been a [...]
Tips for buying a digital camera
Dec 21, 2008
If you have been shopping around for a digital camera lately you have probably noticed that the choices available can be mind-boggling. There are literally dozens of brands, models, and classes of cameras to choose from, and reading all those spec sheets can quickly result in a headache. Choosing which digital camera to buy doesn’t [...]
Solid State hard drives
Dec 21, 2008
For several decades now personal computers have used hard disk drives to store their programs and data, and for the most part they have served us extremely well. But the future of computer mass storage most assuredly rests elsewhere: in solid state hard drives.
Solid state drives aren’t really “disk drives” at all. Instead of a [...]
