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Slant-Topped Tables

Posted on July 1, 2021 by Les Tanner / Comments Off on Slant-Topped Tables

And Other Useful Ideas By Les Tanner I read a book a while back entitled The Next Fifty Years. It consists of a collection of essays written by scientists from a lot of different disciplines. In each essay,
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Learned Behaviors

Posted on November 1, 2020 by Les Tanner / Comments Off on Learned Behaviors

A Small-College Professor Remembers His Students By Les Tanner Photos Courtesy of The College of Idaho Some years ago, I asked the students in my trigonometry class to help decide what to do about an application for admission.
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Bottle Up

Posted on August 1, 2020 by Joseph Zahnle / Comments Off on Bottle Up

And Bottle Down Story and Photos by Joseph Zahnle It was just a yellow plastic bottle lying in the neighbor’s driveway across the street. I noticed it when I was taking out the trash. Someone had driven over
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Herding Turkeys

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Joseph Zahnle / Comments Off on Herding Turkeys

In the Suburbs Story and Photos by Joseph Zahnle One morning last March, my ninety-seven-year-old mother-in-law, Margaret, walked into my home office and asked if I had heard the turkeys. “In our neighborhood?” I thought. I had seen
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In for a Penny

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Les Tanner / Comments Off on In for a Penny

Trying to Stay Sane in an Insane Time Story and Photos by Les Tanner This spring was a scary time, no doubt about it. An uncertain time. When most of the news seemed to be bad. When a
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Kids First Cast

Posted on April 1, 2020 by The Editors / Comments Off on Kids First Cast

Congratulations! Ivan Hurlburt is the winner of the fish painting from our drawing at an event of Kids First Cast—the Idaho nonprofit that teaches children how to fish—on February 8 at the O’Connor Field House in Caldwell. The
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Ruby’s Cowboys

Posted on January 1, 2020 by Les Tanner / Comments Off on Ruby’s Cowboys

A Lifelong Fascination By Les Tanner I never did know when or why my wife became interested in cowboys, but then I don’t recall ever asking her, either. The only horses she’d ever been around were two old
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Sounds

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Les Tanner / Comments Off on Sounds

The Chords of Memory By Les Tanner It’s a little after 3:00 a.m. in the spring of 2015 and here I am again in my nightly contemplation mode at home in Caldwell, lying on my back, hands behind
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