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
The Road That Joined the Halves By Marylyn Cork I first heard about the history of the old North and South Highway from my father. It seemed to fascinate him a little, although he didn’t become an Idahoan
It’s Greek to Idaho By Steve Carr Many historians maintain that the celebrated Greek physicist and fly fisherman, Archimedes, was in Greece, not Idaho, when he realized the water his body displaced in the bathtub was the result
They’re Gross but Entertaining By Marylyn Cork It’s daylight and here they come, racing pell-mell down the mountainside, tumbling over themselves in their haste. Across the county road, up to the top rail of the yard’s fence. These
An Idaho Colloquialism By Steve Carr If you’ve lived in Idaho more than a few years, chances are you’ve heard a discussion about what those ditches that run along the side of our county roads are called. I
You Look Unreal By Steve Carr If you don’t mind me asking, who decorated your fake tree?” he said as he slurped his eggnog and grabbed four snowman sugar cookies, leaving but a few disembodied arms and legs
For a Day of Giving Thanks By Marylyn Cork Over the river and through the woods . . . The opening line of that old Thanksgiving poem pops into my head every time I think of the holiday
