Emily Articulated
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
With the world feeling like it’s starting to reopen, and the edges of our confinement slowly peeling back into this newest version of “normalcy,” I’ve …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
With the world feeling like it’s starting to reopen, and the edges of our confinement slowly peeling back into this newest version of “normalcy,” I’ve …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
It’s hard to live in the greater Sandpoint area and not feel the pulsing boom of the newcomers, home-buyers, rental-seekers, land-sellers and everyone stuck somewhere …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
There are a lot of things I’m just really not good at.
Cars and their complex mechanics, for example, transform from user manuals and routine …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
I’ve always been a dog person. From my first wet-nosed nuzzle and sloppy, warm kiss, I knew a dog’s love was something special. Their easy …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
Exactly four years ago I was packing up my old silver Subaru, a vehicle I had purchased as soon as I set my heart on …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Staff
I finished my first book of 2021. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig had been sitting in my audiobook queue since it came out in …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
Well, it’s official. The year of curveball after curveball, of perpetually adapting to the unknown, and during which the unprecedented steadily became precedent, is coming …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Staff
Not long ago, I was having one of “those days.” It was the kind of morning that started with a coffee burn on my tongue …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
This Thanksgiving looks a bit different than last, with fewer miles traveled and loved ones feeling the distance of six feet apart. It won’t be …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Staff
I know a guy who absolutely hates winter. His face turns sour at the first sign of fall — a crumpled expression like the brown …
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