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Elk hunting held limited appeal

When I was a kid, elk season was elk season. There weren’t the seemingly hundreds of special elk…

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Childhood pal lacked love

It doesn’t take much time or effort to impact another’s life in a positive manner. If one has…

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Tedious tome first literary love

I guess my mother was always smarter than me. Which, of course, is something anyone who knew the…

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Not all car adventures good

Whether cars are very good or very bad, it’s fact that there’s a need for the critters and…

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White-breasted nuthatch walks upside down.

I snapped this photo of a white-breasted nuthatch at our bird feeder last winter. White-breasted nuthatches are not…

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Poor kids don’t easily feast

When I was a child in Wallowa County, my family initiated a mini-tradition on Christmas morning of hopping…

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True purpose can’t be rushed

It didn’t used to be like this. For decades I could perform mundane work for wages, spend weekends…

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Surly fare makes taxi a trap

Whether being dirt poor, which I’ve been, or being drenched in wealth, which I haven’t, there’s always time…

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Thoughts on fish, water, and a dam

Went to a neat thing the other night when a celebration was held for an unlikely coalition that’s…

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Sports can breed skulduggeries

As far as historic sports scandals go, near the top of most lists of skulduggery would be the…

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