http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:07:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_182230839.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_182230839.html After my yard was mowed, my weeds pulled and my tiny garden hoed, I sat on our back step listening to the birds, staring off into the woods and soaking in the sun. It’s not that I didn’t have other chores to do; instead, I chose to do nothing. There’s a difference between the two. Wed, 30 May 2007 21:38:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_150213927.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_150213927.html Tim Carroll watched himself on national TV last Sunday, playing guitar alongside his wife, singer Elizabeth Cook. He heard “CBS Sunday Morning” music critic Bill Flanagan describe Elizabeth’s new album as “a real breath of fresh air.” Flanagan compared her to Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton, adding another glowing review to a list that includes Rolling Stone, The Tennessean and the New York Times. Wed, 16 May 2007 23:14:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_136231437.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_136231437.html I’m not implying this ever really happened, but … Sun, 06 May 2007 23:47:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_126234833.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_126234833.html Wed, 02 May 2007 21:35:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_122212334.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_122212334.html Along with cigarette smoke, change was in the air inside the Corner Tavern on Wednesday afternoon.Just as Tom Keefer sat down to eat a stacked cheeseburger and fries, bartender Tina McSchooler gave him some startling news. Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:38:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_115231734.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_115231734.html I learned to bat left-handed in a barn lot.It was a strategic move. I was born right-handed and had always dug into the righty batters’ box. Until, that is, our sandlot baseball games shifted to a farm pasture. Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:21:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_112232739.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_112232739.html There’s a good chance that if you read this story, you’re going to smile at least a little. It’s about Jim Jerome, and if I knew him at all, I’d say smiling is what Jim most liked seeing people do. Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:42:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_108233830.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_108233830.html Until then, no one knew the quiet kid in the back of the bus possessed such talent and poise.His shining moment was brief, yet unforgettable.During a late-1970s blizzard, a school bus full of junior high-schoolers slid off a southern Vigo County road and ended up stranded in a ditch. As the weather outside worsened, the novelty of their predicament turned from fun to panic. Help had not arrived. Some kids started to cry. Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:49:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_101232548.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_101232548.html Somebody get Mr. Obvious on the phone. Yes, “Bob and Tom Show” fandom falls under a broad umbrella. Some fans can relate to Mr. Obvious, a popular character on the nationally syndicated radio show. Others may fall eerily close to the “longtime listener, first-time caller” who naively asks Mr. Obvious what to do about such dilemmas as a snarling animal living under the kitchen sink. (The sound is, obviously, a garbage disposal.) Sun, 08 Apr 2007 22:44:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_098224416.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_098224416.html As uneasy as it makes me feel, I have to admit that I’ve just recently begun to betray a relationship that dates back 20 years. I first met her two decades ago in the aisle of a local lawnmower dealership. I can remember it like it was yesterday; she was sleek, attractive, trendy, and purred like a kitten. Besides, my wife approved… Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:28:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_080233000.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_080233000.html If I played guitar like I do video games, someone would yank it from my hands and smash it like John Belushi did to the crooning guy on the staircase in “Animal House.” Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:17:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_070232033.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_070232033.html It’s been said that a good storyteller is a person who has a great memory, but hopes that others don’t. I’ve been telling stories my whole life – some in Roy Laybold’s principal’s office in grade school – but I’m not sure I can remember as many of them as I once did. I’m equally as certain that many more of my stories have evolved a bit over the years, too. Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:49:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_049225228.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_049225228.html It was on one of the coldest nights of the year last week when I decided to grab a book from my hope-to-read-soon pile and headed for the warmth of my bed and my great-grandmother’s quilt. I had spent some time outside that evening and had witnessed a dusk as beautiful as a frameless Rockwell Kent landscape, and my frosty breath had seemed to freeze in midair like the dust of some distant nebula. Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:17:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_045221431.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_045221431.html The convergence of Valentine’s Day and a winter storm conjures up obvious questions. Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:23:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_038224104.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/news_columns/local_story_038224104.html Thirty-thousand feet in the air, the eerie connection hit me.Barely a day after Indianapolis won Super Bowl XLI, I was flying on a de-evolutionary path of the Colts’ NFL franchise.While traveling to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., to research an unrelated story, Continental Airlines took me from Indy (where the team has been since 1984) to the airport in Baltimore (the town the Colts left in 1984). And on the way, we changed planes in Cleveland (the city that saw its original Browns move to Baltimore and become the Ravens in 1996).Talk about creepy.