Story and Photos by Les Tanner The early afternoon sun shining through bare limbs casts thin shadows on the browning lawn. Sparrows flit back and forth between the sheltering branches of an evergreen and the ground below. The
The Other Warrior Story and Photos by Melinda Stiles When I moved to Idaho twenty years ago, I found paradise up a creek in a rental trailer with a jaw-dropping view of the Continental Divide. As if paradise
With a New “Family” in Assisted Living By Kitty Widner Photos by Lynda Huddleston On a chilly, seemingly ordinary day in January 2018, my husband Dude (a childhood nickname) took our little dog for a walk. Dude had
Kept and Lost By Aisha Marie Everyone has secrets. Everyone. Things left unsaid to avoid hurt feelings or to keep peace. Secrets we choose to keep because, well, they make our lives easier. My mother taught me that
Even Four Decades Later By Aisha Marie My father was my hero while I was growing up, and I was his baby. I adored that man. In my eyes he was the smartest, strongest man in the world.
On Living and Dying Well By Kelly and Erin Fanning This article is offered free in its entirety for the first part of April. Kelly Fanning, a Nampa native, spent her early years interstate and overseas before graduating
A Family on the Move By Lena G. Hall Photos courtesy of Helen Wood The Fisher family of Eagle came to Idaho by wagon train from Iowa via Kansas in 1889, after so many moves that their descendants
A Between-Houses Interlude By Karlene Bayok Edwards Photos Courtesy of Karlene Bayok Edwards I returned from college that summer of 1972, not to our McCall home, which had been sold, nor to our Jughandle Mountain home, which Dad
A Job Done Together Story and Photos by Desire´Aguirre When I pulled into the driveway in Laclede, my eighty-year-old mom, Rhoda Sanford, had her electric chainsaw in hand and already had made a significant dent in the pile
After the War, Would They Be the Same? By Karlene Bayok Edwards Photos Courtesy of Karlene Bayok Edwards About 240 of the 1,145 civilian construction workers building a military base on Wake Island for the Morrison-Knudsen Company in
