Better Than Buried Alive By Steve Carr “For Sale: one near-mint condition, high school letterman jacket, circa 1973, never worn, some minor moth damage.” With the recent addition of several golf shirts to my closet, something had to
Best to Sleep by the Stove By Marylyn Cork Oh, no! The power has failed—with no prior warning and with my Windows 10 download still in progress. If my Internet wasn’t so slow here outside Priest River, that
Non-Fans of the Super Bowl By Steve Carr As I write this, the National Football League’s one hundredth season is winding down. By the time you read this, probably all that will remain from your Super Bowl LIV
A Mix of Emotions By Marylyn Cork Autumn is my favorite season. Nothing blesses my soul quite like crisp fall mornings, the tang of wood smoke in the air, golden days and blazing colors. It also brings the
In the Absence of Multigrain By Steve Carr I grew up eating white bread. What kid from the 1960s, living in eastern Idaho in a house with a two-car garage and a half-acre of lawn, didn’t love our
High on the Mountainside By Marylyn Cork Autumn is here. The short northern summer has slipped by with very little of the heat, fire, and smoke many of us had feared. The only blaze of any consequence was
In a Digital Universe By Steve Carr My wife and I decided to go to a 10:30 movie. Yes, despite our age we occasionally do silly, impulsive things after the evening news. Unlike our children however, we calculate
A Meditation on the Mountains By Marylyn Cork We often hear the term “sense of place.” But what does it mean? The best definition I’ve found is that it’s a strong identity that is deeply felt by inhabitants
Help Us Keep Good Manners and Always Seek the Light By Steve Carr I can’t swear to it, but I’m pretty sure the man giving the prayer concluded with, “And help us keep the bananas in the fridge
Not for Most City Folk By Marylyn Cork It’s a lovely morning on this hill where I live. The sun beams from an almost-cloudless azure sky. Northern Idaho’s soil and our densely forested mountains desperately need rain already
