By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist As I’ve grown older, the glistening promise of the winter holiday has become a little tarnished. That’s not to say I haven’t had wonderful Christmases, because I have, but there...
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist Having survived COVID-19 and feeling sort of — but not completely — immune, I recently traveled down Mexico way. I didn’t go into Mexico, except just a tiny bit,...
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist I promised myself I would write something light and funny this month. But then, I went to town. I hadn’t been for a while. I’d been pretty much holed...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For local author and man-about-country Sandy Compton, writing about his native land and the characters who occupy it is… complicated. Like any steadfast native of this region, Compton walks...
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist I am ranging through the Great American Trail Series, 10 books edited by A.B. Guthrie, Jr. and published in the 1960s. They each have a different author, including Wallace...
By Sandy Compton Reader Contributor Can you smell it? You remember. Rows of magic electric embers glow upon verdant tinseled boughs The fragrance fills the winter house Gifts piled on the felted cover Carefully...
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist As we approach our national Election Day, polls report that Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by 35 points among women, but only by two points among men. The good...
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist Recently, I witnessed a BMW fast little car and a burly Chevy pickup try to occupy the same lane space at the same time. The person in the BMW...
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist Bill Hodge, Rob Mason and I are rolling slowly down Bloody Dick Creek Road in the Beaverhead National Forest toward a tour of Big Sheep Creek National Backcountry Byway....
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist In the film Night at the Museum II, museum guard Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) and come-back-to-life Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams) lead enlivened historical characters in a battle against evil...
