Category Archives: Humor

Back to School Shopping

I can’t be certain if my mom actually put a curse on me, or if there is just a curse inherent in parenthood, but something is coming back to haunt me, and I’m pretty sure my mom said it would. As a kid, I was a tomboy. Back to school shopping was painful because my […]
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Straight Hair Talk Part II the Stunning Conclusion

Continued from Straight Hair Talk Part I I got out of the Hair Beast’s creepy basement salon as fast as I could and headed over to see my road and soul sister Lucy. She saw my hair and gasped. I promised her that as bad as it was, it could have been worse. Besides, I […]
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Straight Hair Talk Part I

I’m writing this because I’m tired of trying to explain why my hair looks like it belongs to Barry Gibb of the BeeGees during the Saturday Night Fever era. It’s not as bad as Maurice Gibb hair, but not as cute as Andy Gibb hair or I wouldn’t be complaining. I’ve tried to explain my […]
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Tasters Choice

When a child asks you to taste something, it’s never good. Never. If he or she is eating something delicious, they don’t care if you try some; in fact, they would prefer that you did not. I know these things. Still, when the Odd Number required that we go to his favorite Chinese buffet in […]
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Proposed Legislation

I appreciate the fact that credit card companies are now required to disclose the true measure of their lending practices on our bill each month. Thanks to consumer advocates, companies like CapitalOne now have to reveal to me that if I choose to pay only my minimum balance at their usury rate of 18% interest, […]
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The Trouble with Violence Free Parenting

It’s T-shirt weather in Salmon, and I thought that was a good thing. But when I was driving around with our 12-year-old son, the Odd Number (this doesn’t reflect on the kid’s actual strangeness but more his fascination, some would say obsession, with odd numbers, in particular 1,3, and 7), I found out that springtime […]
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Bail, Bondsman

After a monumental grassroots effort, we mustered up 49% of the vote in favor of a new school — a far cry from the 66% super majority required by the State of Idaho. The worst thing after SIX tries … I’m  impressed that we almost split the vote. Nearly half the voting people in Salmon […]
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Hope Springs Eternal

Tomorrow, March 13, voters in Salmon, Idaho, will have what may be the 17th chance to pass a bond to build a new Kindergarten — 8th grade school. The trick is in Idaho, we need a super majority or 66.6% of voters to check the yes box. So the kinds of things we might be […]
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Remote Possibilities

I don’t mind living in the middle of nowhere … it’s leaving that sucks. You have to get serious to leave Salmon, Idaho. The Idaho State girls hockey championship in Idaho Falls last weekend was one of those serious occasions. Luckily for me and my two 15-year-old passengers, the breathtakingly beautiful part of the drive […]
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Police Blotter – 2/16/12

The Salmon weekly, the Recorder Herald, disappointed today in the policy blotter section, and that doesn’t happen very often. I mean there was the pre-requisite roadkill call, “Person hit an elk on the highway at approximately mile marker 325.” But compared to the 12/29/11 blotter … “Man said he was trying to locate a telephone operator […]
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