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  10 Things to Know for Wednesday

  Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

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  Slideshow: Aftermath of massive tornado in Moore

  Storm victims were pulled from the rubble and residents began surveying the damage late Monday and early Tuesday in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, where a powerful tornado destroyed entire neighborhoods and left dozens dead.
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  Group wants to connect downtown Terre Haute with the Wabash River

  Fairbanks Park is underutilized.
  The Wabash River is peaceful and inviting, but there is some concern about its cleanliness as well as pollution levels. Also, people can’t get on the river unless they have a boat.

Mike Lunsford

Mike Lunsford

• MIKE LUNSFORD: Taking a road less traveled in this illogical life

  If you can still recall reading the poetry of Robert Frost in your high school English class years ago, I imagine that you can conjure up a line or two from his “The Road Not Taken.”

  February 20, 2012  

• MIKE LUNSFORD: Books open our eyes to that which we will never see

  I got a letter last week from a friend, Sister Margaret Quinlan, who lives amidst the beauty of the St. Mary-of-the-Woods campus. Besides the email space and the time she invests in describing the flowers and trees and birds that she shares with her roomies out there, as well as her accounts of teaching and traveling, Margaret most often writes about books. She loves them, and she knows I do, too.

  February 6, 2012  

• MIKE LUNSFORD: Hoping to master the art of taking a nap

  I got away from work as early as I could one day last week. It was a cloudy day, filled with grayness and rain, and my head felt as if I had inhaled my pillow the night before. My throat suggested I’d swallowed a wood rasp, too, and my eyes felt as though I was looking through someone else’s glasses. Yet, I had work do, this column being on the list of chores.

  January 23, 2012  

• MIKE LUNSFORD: Windy companion finally gives him the cold shoulder

  The wind came to visit us this week. We live on the knob of a hill that overlooks a Raccoon Creek valley, and it is a breezy spot year-round, but this wind was the kind that ushers in a full-blown front from Canada, perhaps just to remind us that cold weather is going to be the boss around here for a while. No matter how surprising our mild winter has been so far, this kind of wind tells us not to expect many more warm days over the next few months.

  January 9, 2012  

• SIDELINES: Good for even a traditional Classic buff

  Lights down, tree out, another year gone at the Classic.

  January 4, 2012  

• THE OFF SEASON: The more things change, the more they keep changing

  I must have had at least a dozen people ask at my son’s wedding a few weeks ago whether I cried, or “how I was handling losing him.” I think they all knew just how tight I am with my two kids, and thought I must have come completely unglued when it finally hit me that he was on his own for good, that the rules had changed nearly as much in my life when he said ,“I do,” as they did for him.

  December 26, 2011  

• Lunsford signing new book at Brazil Coffee Grounds

  Parke County writer Mike Lunsford will be signing his latest book, “A Place Near Home” (Shade Tree Press; $15) from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Coffee Grounds, Bakery and Coffee Shop in Brazil.

  December 8, 2011  

• MIKE LUNSFORD: In the neighborhood with the ‘fantastic’ Mr. Fox

  As we drove home late one night last week, my wife and I, both a bit drowsy and anxious for a warm bed and a long nap, were surprised to see a red fox as it darted across the road. He made his appearance in a flash — just a bit of nose and fur and bushy tail — as he jumped out of a ditch in front of our car and was caught in the glare of our headlights on his way to the relative safety of an apple orchard.

  November 14, 2011 2 Photos  

• MIKE LUNSFORD: The lizard wore long johns, and other Halloween tales

  We stocked our house with a supply of Halloween candy last week; Joanie and I stopped into the new dollar store in town and filled a grocery cart with Butterfingers and Baby Ruths and Three Musketeers bars. Every aromatic bit of it has been calling to me from the orange-and-black baskets we keep on a living room trunk ever since.

  October 31, 2011 1 Photo  

• MIKE LUNSFORD: Here’s to the simple beauty of an untended garden…

  I can hear a combine eating its way across a nearby cornfield as I write this on a Saturday evening. It is a sound that signals the end of one season and the beginning of anot

  October 17, 2011 2 Photos  

• The Off Season: Listening to Mozart is a ‘purr-fect’ way to relax

  Regardless of what some people may believe, classical music fans are not snobs. They come from all walks of life, fall into all income brackets, and they’re not required to understand or analyze anything to which they’re listening; they just need to enjoy themselves.

  October 3, 2011  

• MIKE LUNSFORD: Fall’s arrival heralded in ever-present fencerows

  As much as I hate summer to leave us, I am happy that fall is just around the corner. It has been a bone-dry season, one in which I’ve watched my yard bake and crack like an old pie crust. My wife and I are still spending our evenings going about the business of watering flowers, standing with a dribbling hose in our hands, optimistically hoping that our drought will be broken because we’ve tempted the weather fates to do us one better and give us a good rain.

  September 19, 2011 1 Photo  

• MIKE LUNSFORD: The value of hard work goes well beyond a paycheck

  Years ago, I used to drive into Rosedale to get my workday started with a big cup of black coffee. Every morning, Monday through Friday, until the town grocery store’s business dried up and blew away, you could have found me slipping through a back door — left unlocked for the early birds — of the old Red and White, 15 minutes before it opened for official business.

  September 5, 2011 1 Photo  

• MIKE LUNSFORD: Life’s little conveniences actually can be quite annoying

  I am aware that much of the language I use is outdated, stodgy, old-fashioned; I apologize.

  August 22, 2011 1 Photo  

• The Off Season: Another sad passing: One-time trendsetter can’t keep up

  I wandered into the local mall bookstore the other day. My wife and I had come to town with a list of chores to do and things to buy, but whenever we venture anywhere near a place with book shelves and sales tables and racks of paperbacks, we’re attracted to the scent of ink and the sight of book covers like bees to clover .

  August 8, 2011  

• MIKE LUNSFORD: Overheated in Hobart and other vacation tales…

  My family climbed into our van and headed to Michigan a few weeks ago, just as we do every other year or so, to stay on the great lake there, for we have come to love its cool breezes and blue water and lighthouses.

  July 25, 2011 1 Photo  

• MIKE LUNSFORD: Silence is wonderful, as long as you don’t take it too far

  I have visited this topic — how it is often only through inconvenience that we come to appreciate the comforts we have in life — before.

  July 11, 2011 1 Photo  

• MIKE LUNSFORD: His tolerance for insects ends with sawyer beetles

  As I sloshed a can of water over a pot of red petunias a Sunday morning ago, I saw a pine sawyer beetle make its way slowly up the vinyl siding near my front door. I swatted it to the concrete, and smashed it with my shoe … with impunity, I might add.

  June 27, 2011 1 Photo  

• MIKE LUNSFORD: Storm damage makes you appreciate home

  My wife and I hadn’t been into town for a good while when we drove in from our place to visit her doctor and my favorite hardware store last week.

  June 13, 2011 1 Photo  

• Paying respect in more way than one way…

  It has become a habit of mine on Mother’s Day to go to Rosedale Cemetery and lay a few irises on my mom’s grave.

  May 30, 2011 3 Photos  

• The Off Season: On the trail with Max the Mushroom Cat

  The wet weather and a busy calendar have kept my wife and me from doing what we’ve really wanted to do for a while. Ever since the thermometer began to stay consistently above 40 and the grass started to green, we’ve wanted to get outside, get some sun on our arms, and get down to the wetlands to watch the geese make their landings with a flourish and a honk.

  May 2, 2011  

• THE OFF SEASON: So much to do; so little time…

  My wife’s aunt, Martha Jean McCarthy, passed away earlier this month; she was 85 years old. Martha Jean was kind and generous and busy her entire life.

  April 18, 2011 1 Photo  

• MIKE LUNSFORD: A lesson plan for public schools

  I am an advocate of public education; I pull no punches about that. I have taught in public schools for 32 years, and I think it is an inherently American institution.

  April 3, 2011  

• THE OFF SEASON: Craning to see elegance in flight

  Just before midnight last night, spring officially slipped quietly into our back yards, but I doubt that any of us noticed it much this morning as we slurped our coffee or downed our eggs over this newspaper.

  March 21, 2011 1 Photo  

• The office boy who became a poet

  I made up my mind when I moved my home office out of the house last summer that I’d organize some of my books, that I’d categorize and catalogue them in a way that would help me find the one I wanted when I wanted it. I can’t say it worked out as well as I had hoped. Already, I have the overflow stacked on the floor and shoved into the spaces where previous tenants once lived. Gradually, expediency is replacing order, so fiction and non-fiction, biographies and novels, are scandalously co-mingling on my shelves.

  March 7, 2011  

• THE OFF SEASON: The office boy who became a poet

  I made up my mind when I moved my home office out of the house last summer that I’d organize some of my books, that I’d categorize and catalogue them in a way that would help me find the one I wanted when I wanted it. I can’t say it worked out as well as I had hoped.

  March 7, 2011  

• THE OFF SEASON: It’s taken long time to say thanks…

  It was with a cup of coffee and a newspaper in my hands a few Mondays ago that I discovered that Mr. Hapenny had died.

  February 21, 2011 1 Photo  

• THE OFF SEASON: Lessons learned from the night the ice fell

  The picture window of my cabin is sealed in a perfect glaze of ice as I write this, last Thursday morning, and since it faces due north and sees little direct sunlight, I imagine I will be looking through this shower door glass of mine for a few more days. But since I sit and watch the woods much of the time, instead of writing, I suppose the ice is serving a rare good purpose in keeping me on task.

  February 7, 2011 1 Photo  

• The Off Season: Pass a ‘midnight dreary’ with The Big Read

  It was a pretty poor excuse for an evening one night last week as I lay beside our glowing fireplace, a pillow propped behind my head. I was spending some time with my current read, enjoying each page in the semi-darkness, smug in the knowledge that I’d not be heading to my classroom the next day.

  January 24, 2011  

• The Off Season: ‘Too old and too lazy’ to deal with coyotes

  Despite the cold and the ever-present winter breezes that blow across our hill these days, I often find myself, even in the blue evenings, standing on the walk near my cabin, looking at the stars or watching for the last red-tailed hawks of the day as they float by in the drafts.

  January 10, 2011  

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