This Time for Good Story and Photos by Glenn Theberge In June 1970, my seventeen-year-old wife Cathy and I visited Mountain Home to see her uncle, who was stationed at the airbase. Our drive from Massachusetts across the
A Small Hand Proffered By Brittney Eggleston Photos by Karl Eggleston Sun shining, a breeze caressing my neck. Not a cloud in the sky on this July day in 2020, and we were able to get an early
The Sorry Saga of Great-Uncle Darrell By Carmen Magart By the time you’ve achieved a ripe old sixty, there’s usually a long list of characters who’ve played special parts in your life. Some of the actors along the
Stunned by Gifts and the Giving Story and Photos by Alice Schenk “Dad, Mom, there are some big birds out on the front lawn,” one of the Gentry children said to her parents on the sixth day of
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
A Place of Light and Hope Story and Photos by Bren Slade The light was dim inside the ambulance. My daughter lay breathing but unresponsive. Were there windows? I don’t remember. It was Christmas Eve. Five months earlier,
A Thunderbird Convertible By Max Jenkins On a pleasant evening in Grangeville in July 1955, I came home early from work and was helping Mom set the table when Dad pulled into the driveway. He’d been honking halfway
An Unstoppable Little Brother By Karlene Bayok Edwards Photos courtesy of the author Ronny must have been almost four when he followed our dog Pete into the woods. We lived on a hill outside McCall and much of
A Struggle to Survive By Kirk and Madeline David In the summer of 2015, as we sat on our porch enjoying a sunny afternoon at our northern Idaho home on forested acreage just a few miles south of
The Store as Polestar By Nancy Max Photos Courtesy of Nancy Max In late 1945, when my dad accepted a job checking groceries in the Eden store, our family moved there from Twin Falls. We lived in a
