http://www.tribstar.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:34:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_321233457.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_321233457.html Ever since I read “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift, I have been an admirer of well-crafted satire, sarcasm and irony. Been known to use the persuasive little devils myself on occasion. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:17:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_318234543.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_318234543.html My friend Bob Cameron died this past week. Among the many things I learned from our friendship was to never again hear that someone really old has passed, then respond with a shallow, “Oh, well, sounds like he had a good, long run. I guess it was time.” Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_314230312.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_314230312.html As best I can remember, I have never dreaded a single birthday — and never really understood the popular inclination to do so. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:27:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_311232753.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_311232753.html Think antiabortion rights politics is simple? Take a look at the week Rep. Brad Ellsworth had. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:29:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_307232905.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_307232905.html Among the many truths Joan Ryan shares in her new book, “The Water Giver,” is this:“You don’t need to go to a monastery in Tibet to learn about living in the moment. Just spend a month in an ICU.” Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:37:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_304223901.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_304223901.html As I was walking out of Wednesday’s Power of the Purse luncheon for the United Way, a woman said to me, “You know, for a small city, Terre Haute really does some amazing things.” Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:46:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_300212919.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_300212919.html In the 10-plus years we spoke to one another over our tiny San Francisco back yards, all I really knew about Lenore was that she was an unfailingly cheerful, elderly woman who adored the sun and wore her long silver hair in a braid down her back. Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:02:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_297220335.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_297220335.html Professor Glenn Sparks’ office at Purdue University is filled with collections of written accounts from people providing detailed descriptions of film, television or other visual media experiences they wish they had never encountered. Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:16:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_283181521.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_283181521.html “Warning: Contents under pressure.” Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:38:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_276223908.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_276223908.html It’s too bad the Terre Foods Cooperative Market isn’t a Wall Street investment bank or the auto industry. Then, the federal government would come through with some guaranteed loans so the much-anticipated project could kick into high gear. Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:33:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_273214044.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_273214044.html Fifteen years ago I read a newspaper story that altered the direction of my life a few degrees. By my most conservative calculations, that alteration has saved the lives of about a dozen people and restored the sight of four more. Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:19:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_269191850.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_269191850.html Listed as the seventh reason on a flier urging Christians to attend nationwide Life Chain prayer events next Sunday is “To provide God a witness to anoint and use to save lives and change hearts in each local area.” Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:22:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_262193124.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_262193124.html Because so many of you apparently are being urged to do so by your favorite radio, TV and Internet gurus, I’d like to offer a few pointers on how to get what you want from your local, knee-jerk liberal, socialism-mongering newspaper. Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:43:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_255204446.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_255204446.html As the span of years since Sept. 11, 2001, has lengthened and the people of this nation increasingly have turned their fear and frustration on one another, I often find myself imagining Osama bin Laden and whatever remains of his original gang of al Qaida fanatics. Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:26:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_248222605.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_248222605.html Two items today about what we used to call “going to the doctor” or “being in the hospital,” but now refer to with a word or term whose initials are “HC.”