Presence under Pressure By Deb Roman We hadn’t seen each other in many months, but when I entered her hospital room, her first words to me were, “How is Jess?” Jess is my daughter. As a little girl,
History’s Ways and Means By Janelle M. Scheffelmaier My daughter turned thirteen the other day. I don’t think I’m ready to parent a teenager. But then again, is anyone? Few parts of parenting are easy. Of course, many
Tradition Restored Story and Photos by Ken Neely “This is gonna take a while,” I mused after several minutes of scraping and chipping. I was working on a nasty buildup of carbonized food residue on a cast-iron muffin
Inspiration for a Novel Kevin McNeill with David McNeill Photos Courtesy of Kevin McNeill It looks just like the high country around Alexandra.” That was how I described Idaho over the phone to my wife, Sheila, comparing it
The Worst and the Best By Chuck Trunks From the middle of an oversized fabric couch in his dimly lit living room in Boise, with each sneaker firmly wedged on the side of a heavy coffee table, Keith
Life Lessons from the Garden By Mary Rogers I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but
A Cinematic Interlude By Dean Worbois During the glory days of Halloween seven decades ago, about the time my sisters and I were cast out to knock on doors without a parent trailing us, our home in Boise
The Big and Small of It By Dean Worbois Was it a big town or a small city? I was raised in both, choosing my environment by what I was looking for at the time. It was the
In a White World By Olivia Malmgren Photos Courtesy of the Malmgren Family The author, a high school senior in Boise, wrote the following piece last fall for an English class assignment. It is published here with permission.
Endangered Family Farms Stick Together Story and Photos by Richard Mouser In 2005, my family made the decision to move away from the suburban neighborhoods of Eagle and buy an old home in the outskirts of Boise, on
