http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:49:00 +0000 http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_320005040.html http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_320005040.html Despite being reared in an age of great scientific and technological discovery, I have always believed that walking into a breeze or looking up at the stars trumps the laboratory explanations for their being. That idea was reinforced in me again a few nights ago. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:24:00 +0000 http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_306002557.html http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_306002557.html I have spent much of the past few days raking leaves and cleaning my yard. The yearly ritual burns my time like cordwood, but it’s not really work at all when I compare the clear blue skies and cool breezes of late October to the sweaty miseries of July and August workdays. Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:59:00 +0000 http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_291200017.html http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_291200017.html I have no problem in admitting that I am not the most urbane man you will ever meet. I have only basic knowledge of the social proprieties, often fail to have my shoes polished, and have a hard time getting the part in my hair to come out straight. There’s no doubt that I prefer faded cotton to Armani any day. Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:16:00 +0000 http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_277232409.html http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_277232409.html I remember the days of driving into town with my grandfather many years ago, sometimes on a Saturday morning to the lumber yard or over to his church to mow grass; he would often comment on the people he waved to from the rolled-down window of his pick-up. Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:48:00 +0000 http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_263235147.html http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_263235147.html It is a lazy late-summer Sunday afternoon as I write this; it is also my birthday, and as I sit at my desk today and watch through my window as warm breezes sift through maple leaves, memories of trees other than those in my front yard come back to me, and I open them like brand new gifts. Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:03:00 +0000 http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_250000454.html http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_250000454.html It was on a breezy Saturday morning trip through our barn’s double doors that I happened to notice a pair of my old work boots in the trash barrel we keep there. It is in that place that much of what we have worn out or used up ends, just junk taking a last bow before meeting up with landfill dirt. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_236000249.html http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_236000249.html We had a medical emergency at our house a few weeks back, but fortunately, after a little first-aid, an all-night nursing vigil, and a trip into town, we’re feeling a little bit better about things now. Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:20:00 +0000 http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_221232025.html http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_221232025.html I can laugh about it now, but I actually saw newspaper headlines flashing before my eyes for a few seconds last week: “Writer dies in Model T test drive crash.” Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_208000213.html http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_208000213.html One of the things my wife and I most wanted when we moved to our place almost 30 years ago was the barn that sat behind the house. Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:56:00 +0000 http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_193195643.html http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_193195643.html On a blistering hot afternoon a few weeks back, my wife and I knocked on the door of sculptor Bill Wolfe’s workshop on the west side of Clinton. We were there to meet Abraham Lincoln. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:10:00 +0000 http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_180001215.html http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_180001215.html I should have known when I sat down at the kitchen table one night last week to use our old typewriter on an application — just for a name and a few sentences on one of those pre-printed forms — that the whole thing was going to blow up in my face. We seem to be in the same rut right now that all homeowners face from time to time: Everything we own is falling apart. Anyway, I rolled the form into the typewriter and started on my name: M-i-c-h-a-e-l L-u-s-f-o-r-d … no “n”— the “n” wouldn’t work… Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:55:00 +0000 http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_165235636.html http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_165235636.html We were never quite sure where he came from, but some weeks ago a big black dog ambled sideways up our drive, his huge pink tongue hanging askew in search of a good drink of water. He promptly sacked out on the steps near my front door, and there he stayed, sleeping near our potted plants. Sun, 31 May 2009 23:52:00 +0000 http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_151235416.html http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_151235416.html It is raining on this warm spring morning, and although it may sound a bit strange to you, I am comforted by the sound of the water running free in my gutters toward their downspouts. It was just a week or so ago that I cleaned the last of the maple seedlings out of them. Mon, 18 May 2009 00:17:00 +0000 http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_138002131.html http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_138002131.html I posed a question to one of my English classes the other day: “Have you ever read something that touches you? That inspires you? That has changed you in some fundamental way? Sun, 03 May 2009 23:56:00 +0000 http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_123235719.html http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/tribstar/mike_lunsford/local_story_123235719.html We sat in the pews of our small country church sanctuary a few Sundays ago, and before long our class was deep into a discussion about memories and how the prophet Isaiah reminded us that we were to “forget the former things,” that we are “not to dwell on the past.”