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Back when I was an impressionable teenager, I used popular sayings such as “bitchen,” “far out” and “groovy.” This kept me in good graces with the cool kids. It also kept me on top of current words used by the “in crowd.” I mention this only because I’m about to discuss the absurdity of today’s clichéd phrases. I want it clear that I understand how the use of certain words and phrases can determine whether a person is on top of things or hopelessly out of synch with contemporary society. That said, I think most of today...
I can still remember the cold winter day when my wife and I first saw Cheney. We had driven up from Portland in the late ‘80s for a job interview, and I recall that in the last 100 miles we had passed through a very dry and desolate country. I now know what a wonderful, unique place the channeled scablands are, but at the time it seemed only to be a lot of nothing all the way from the Tri-Cities north to the Spokane County line. It was when a line of pine trees appeared on the northern horizon near the exit for Fishtrap Lake...
