Stephen Yeargin

As a reminder for my friends in Tennessee, you have until October 5 (30 days prior to the general election November 4) to submit your voter registration if you are either a) not registered to vote or b) have not voted within the last two November general elections. That means if you decided to sit [...]

This is not a new article by any stretch (WordPress has been on Subversion for quite some time), but it might help a couple of people I know that use WordPress but have a lousy time keeping it up to date. I tried to use my own experience with moving to Subversion as the basis [...]

Writing has been a fine exercise lately, helping to maintain a relative sense of calm within the constant changes of the surrounding world. I do not feel as if though I have really had a lot of time to collect my thoughts other than sitting down in front of my home computer. At the end [...]

I am notorious among a few of my friends for not watching very many movies or reading books for pleasure. I am sure I could rack my brain for a few hours and come up with a perfectly plausible explanation for it, but it generally comes down to a short attention span. I never have [...]

I do not own a device that can take advantage of the new Application Store in iTunes. Our Verizon contract comes up for renewal in February, but despite my perhaps unhealthy desire for an iPhone we do not plan on switching to AT&T. The reasons are fairly simplistic: Verizon has a better network outside of [...]

A friend of mine pointed out today that I have not written a Letter to the Editor in quite some time. I can vaguely recall starting drafts for quite a few, but never bothering to send them. I had a fairly good success rate for having them published, but then again I would be deeply [...]

I am unusually awake for a Friday morning, listening to music and glancing around various places on the Internet. The playlist is as mellow as possible (John Mayer and Eric Clapton soulful guitar), with a bit more up tempo material (Cold Play, Matchbox 20) to get the heart pumping a bit faster. I think I [...]

Colleges and universities across the country are beginning their fall semester this and the coming weeks. Most middle Tennessee schools returned to classes a week or so ago, effectively ending what most of us call “summer.” The calendar will hold that summer has more than a month remaining, but the things that define our concept [...]

Prior to a recent decision by the Southern Baptist Convention to purge member rolls after a period of inactivity, I was (presumably) counted among the members of a small missionary Baptist church in rural west Tennessee. I joined the church by baptism in 1997 and have never had the kind of conflict of faith that [...]

I have lived at two apartments since moving back to Nashville with swimming pools. The majority of the time at the previous was during the winter months, and the property’s insurance policy probably did not cover hypothermia for residents. We have been at our current residence for over a year and have only ventured into [...]