Posts Tagged ‘Jul-2008’

Alton Jones is a big fan of country music, but one song he doesn’t care too much for is “Too Cold At Home,” a catchy number by Mark Chesnutt that climbed the charts back in 1990. It’s not that Jones doesn’t like the song. He just doesn’t agree with the lyrics. In that song, Chesnutt croons, “Too hot to fish, too hot for golf, too cold at home.” Jones, a professional bass angler from Waco, Texas, isn’t sure about the golf part, but too h…

The town of Franklin, 20 miles south of Nashville, is a tranquil community with elm-shaded streets, neat homes and quaint little shops on the town square. But look closer and you discover dark reminders of one of the bloodiest days in American history. Three blocks from downtown, the historic Carter House and several of its out-buildings remain pock-marked by hundreds of bullet holes, and a couple of miles down the road at Carnton Plantation the wooden floors remain stained dark by the bl…

Fitting fitness into a day’s schedule is the dilemma we all face. Exercising is tough after long hours of working, but a missing component for far too many people in America. Those who struggle to find a good chunk of time to set aside for exercise can manage to get an effective workout done in just 15-20 minutes prior to starting work for the day and 15-20 minutes after work is done for the day. Even if that exercise is a simple walk before breakfast and after dinner, a 15-20 minute…

The first time Carl Edwards executed his trademark victory backflip it was pure exuberance; now it has become a regular expectation. “When I won my first race [in the NASCAR truck series in 2003] I was excited and the adrenaline was pumping and I did a backflip on the spur of the moment,” explains Edwards. “The fans and the media liked it, so the next time I won I did it again. And again. And gradually I realized I’d started something that I couldn’t stop. Ev…