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New Years New Years hooray for New Years | Talking Salmons
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Joshua Salmons blogs, swims upstream and avoids bears n' stuff. January 8, 2014. New Years New Years hooray for New Years. Well well, look at that2014. Going to take me a few months to get used to writing the new number. I had enough wherewithal and actual data to seem like I knew what the hell I was talking about all of us Y2K believers did. It just made sense, right? And it turned out to be total bupkis. That was the end of that. I even remember a TV movie that tried to cash in on the paranoia. Jen...
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The mind’s remembering | Talking Salmons
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Joshua Salmons blogs, swims upstream and avoids bears n' stuff. January 1, 2014. The mind’s remembering. I made it to the West Coast to see the folks a couple of weeks ago. My father is from Kentucky and my mother is from Oregon. They met at a holiday picnic in San Diego while they were both in the Navy. They’ve ended up in Oregon after long last and I get the chance to see them as I can. Being the crazy world traveler myself, there are often spans of time when I’m away. Some memories are immediate seemi...
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If face-to-face with the president, you’d shake his hand | Talking Salmons
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Joshua Salmons blogs, swims upstream and avoids bears n' stuff. September 9, 2013. If face-to-face with the president, you’d shake his hand. As some of you know, I wasn’t the biggest fan of President Bush. I didn’t like his wars, I felt that his tax cuts cost the country more than they stimulated in growth, and I thought he came across as a goof. I wrote snarky FB updates, shared snarky FB posts, laughed at his expense, called him names, etc. I was younger and dumber. But you know what? Later in 2010-ish...
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April | 2014 | Talking Salmons
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Joshua Salmons blogs, swims upstream and avoids bears n' stuff. April 1, 2014. My utter failing as a human as told by my lawn. My doppelganger, the Scotts lawn guy. I don’t like yard work. I don’t like yards. Part of this is because I’m a ginger. I burn easily, meaning time spent outside has me looking angrily up at the sky, knowing every minute I’m stacking up my skin-cancer points like “Hunger Games” characters’ names in the reaping bowl. Which I have apparently. However, again, I don’t like lawns.
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October | 2014 | Talking Salmons
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Joshua Salmons blogs, swims upstream and avoids bears n' stuff. October 29, 2014. After a few great years at WordPress, I’ve moved to Squarespace. Check out the new blog at www.talkingsalmons.com. Follow Blog via Email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 76 other followers. I write, dance and do most things. On Sometimes, let people be wrong. On If face-to-face with the president, you’d shake his hand. On The mind’s remembering. Cynicism is ...
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Cynicism is my only refuge | Talking Salmons
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Joshua Salmons blogs, swims upstream and avoids bears n' stuff. November 19, 2014. Cynicism is my only refuge. The Alex From Target hoax hoax. And Syrian Hero Boy hoax. Join a towering pile of examples of times I’ve been duped. I’ve always been gullible. Kids would make up stuff or one-up my stories. I didn’t know enough to know they were lying. There I’d sit, defeated and sullen, having been out-foxed in the churning social proofing of childhood. As I got older, my inept attempts at trickery continued.
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The War Year | Talking Salmons
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Joshua Salmons blogs, swims upstream and avoids bears n' stuff. Archive The War Year. RSS for this section. September 19, 2006. In The War Year. A questionaire. Four pages. On top of a stack of seven packs of some-odd papers, also. And they were? Papers for paper’s sake. The same information requested in six of them, but with different form numbers and colored headings. Flipping through our pile in a gym’s bleachers…. Do you have any of the listed symptoms…. PPD positive in the past? Then I’m done? 8221;...
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Oh great, I’m a ‘creative’ now | Talking Salmons
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Joshua Salmons blogs, swims upstream and avoids bears n' stuff. October 22, 2014. Oh great, I’m a ‘creative’ now. 8220;I need help.”. 8220;A flyer thing I’m making.”. 8220;Yikes. What did you make this in? 8220;I was just messing in Word for a couple of minutes.”. 8220;Well that’s why it looks terrible. You can’t do design very well in–“. 8220;Yeah I know, but you need to make it pretty. I don’t know. That’s your thing. You knowdo that you thing you do. Being a creative is kind of like be labeled a math ...
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Two ears yet stone deaf: When no one listens | Talking Salmons
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Joshua Salmons blogs, swims upstream and avoids bears n' stuff. November 4, 2014. Two ears yet stone deaf: When no one listens. Through my many thousands of years of life, I’ve discovered that people don’t read long emails. They used to, back in the Hasmonean dynasty. Had all day to read emails then…all day. But not so much anymore. Through these same thousands of years of life, I’ve discovered that people don’t read short emails either. So I’m one of “these people” too. I wrote a previous blog post.
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I was bullied; I was a bully; I was something worse | Talking Salmons
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Joshua Salmons blogs, swims upstream and avoids bears n' stuff. November 6, 2014. I was bullied; I was a bully; I was something worse. We are all familiar with bullies and those who are bullied. There’s this mantra of ‘you gotta be a sheep or a wolf’ that gets applied to life. Either you get out there and take what you want, or you’re beholden to those who do. I’ve been that type of person. I was bulled, teased and pushed around as a kid. There were also a couple of times when I became the bully. Onc...
