Emily Articulated: Barbie
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist This article contains spoilers about the Barbie movie. Steer clear if you’re still planning on watching (and also, what are you waiting for?). My $14 ticket to Regal Cinemas...
Category: Opinion
My ‘office sister’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff There is a page in my desk calendar that I’ve been dreading since there was still snow on the ground. Sometime back in the late-winter or early-spring, I wrote...
Out of the trenches
By Ben Olson Reader Staff I still remember when Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey joined our little family at the Reader. It was the summer of 2016 and I had received an email from a University of...
The possessions we cherish
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Anyone who has seen the A&E show Hoarders knows what it’s like to see someone literally buried under the weight of their possessions. If you haven’t seen the show,...
Where will the children play?
By K.L. Huntley Reader Contributor Everything, absolutely everything eventually evolves. This includes people, wildlife languages and cultures. That is the way it is and the way it will continue to evolve long after we...
Emily Articulated:
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist I started therapy about a month ago, which was my first time seeing a mental health professional since I sat plopped between my parents on a green couch below...
I’ll be your hurtleberry
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s a confession I make at the risk of committing blasphemy, but I’ve never thought huckleberries are much of a novelty. That’s not to say I don’t like them,...
Freedom for all people
By Barbara Russell Reader Contributor In 2009, the United Nations designated July 18 as Nelson Mandela International Day to shine a light on the legacy of the man born on that date in 1918...
The Lumberjill: Idaho — love it or leave it?
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Columnist If you don’t like Idaho’s values, then leave. This rhetorical dead end, usually aimed at anyone feeling a modicum of consternation regarding our state’s political climate, was directed...
Sandpoint’s hip Canadian sister Nelson
By Ben Olson Reader Staff I’ve been visiting Nelson, B.C. regularly since high school. Back then, I owned the worst fake ID ever created, which was purchased from a shady store in Spokane during...
