Category Archives: Humor

Not Licensed to Drive

My daughter turned 15 on Sunday. In Salmon, we don’t celebrate the traditional Quinceanera like they do in places where they have more than one ethnic background. Rural communities tend to celebrate the 15th birthday with El Drivers Licensero, which should send a shudder down the spine of anyone who has ever been a teenage […]
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Hockey — the Guilty Pleasure

The ice skating complex in Salmon easily played a role in my family’s move here. By complex, I mean simplex, like there is a public skating rink co-located with a certifiable hockey rink. The public rink had a warming shed, albeit one that smelled like a carpeted urinal, and lights that anyone could turn on […]
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From the Police Blotter

In the Feb 9, 2012 Recorder Herald: Man said he just got a ticket from a city officer and wants him to come right now and talk to him. He said if the officer would have shut up for five seconds he could have explained his side of the story. Man said he was concerned […]
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A visit from the Good Lovelies

When you live in the deep interior West, sometimes you have to pay people to come visit. Fortunately, the Salmon Arts Council paid the folk/roots trio The Good Lovelies to visit Salmon last night. Arts venues are in short supply in Salmon so in winter months, the Elks Lodge is known to double as concert […]
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The Very Definition

Podunk. Po-dunk. \ˈpō-ˌdəŋk\: A small, unimportant, and isolated town. I needed to start with the definition mainly because my Grandma Ruby, a lifelong Scrabble master, wasted my Christmas letter because I used the non-dictionary term waify to describe my anorexic looking 12-year-old son. Apparently “waif-like” would be appropriate, or “my son is a waif” would […]
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Podunk, Paradise, or Both?

From the January 19, 2012 Recorder Herald Police Log…. Caller said there was a black cow out on the side of the highway around mile marker 127 or 128. Man reported traffic going up the draw. He thought it was poachers because the seasons were over. He didn’t know why anyone would be going up […]
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