By Ben Olson Reader Staff During “normal” times, the last page of the calendar usually brings wistful looks back at the year that has passed and hopeful views of the year ahead. Let’s face...
Sam Luikens Reader Contributor The holiday season is usually a time when many families gather together, some turning to the familiar and newly-minted traditions that offer comfort in the dark season. However it looks,...
By Sen. Melissa Witntrow, D-Boise Special to the Reader What if you were hanging on the edge of a cliff and your friend leaned down and started rapping hard on your fingers, at the...
By Kathleen Huntley Reader Contributor When he was barely 18, and unable to vote in this country, my late husband had a caduceus tattooed on his upper right arm. He turned 18 on a...
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 to a close. If...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Like so many naive and ever-so-slightly conceited teenage girls growing up in the 2000s, I had a blog. It was a free WordPress domain with an obscenely long URL...
By Jeff Bohnhof Reader Contributor As I was growing up, I always knew that I was different. Not in a bad way, but I was always pretty much a loner. I’d rather work in...
By Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad Reader Contributor I’d like to take a moment to reflect on what I have to be grateful for this holiday season. I’m grateful for the love of family and...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff I am planning to get married next July. I say “planning to” because I fear that printing definitives about anything personal and happy will tempt the universe to ruin...
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor My 1957 Cal-Berkeley bride is staring 86 in the face and has an underlying medical condition, which makes her a COVID-19 magnet. I am 89 and have a superior,...
