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, the author … Continue reading
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. The applicant … Continue reading
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 it and … Continue reading
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 them near … Continue reading
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 person not … Continue reading
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 painting was … Continue reading
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 plow horses … Continue reading
Bliss for a Butterfly Guy By Les Tanner Photos by Susannah Newsome It was 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, August 3, 2019, when I bid goodbye to Jimmy the cat, promising to be back by dark (I’m not sure he believed … Continue reading
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 my head, … Continue reading
You Net What You Sew By Les Tanner Imagine, if you will, a project involving several sets of used lace curtains, an old leather jacket, a few board feet of pine, three yards of cloth, two-and-a-half dozen large brass rings, … Continue reading
