By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Beloved Christmas traditions like giving gifts, baking cookies and caroling make the modern celebration the most saccharine holiday of the year — at least in the U.S. Christmas wasn’t...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Maybe it’s because I was born the day after Christmas that I became a humbug. Throughout my childhood, Christmas always loomed before my birthday; the annual eclipse that left...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Each Christmas edition for the past couple of years, the Reader has published a last-minute gift guide for those locals who, as one Facebook meme I saw today put...
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist I love the experience of gift giving. I revel in the days of warm rumination about the people I care about, letting thoughts of their life and my relationship...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Aside from Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin and perhaps Yogi Berra, the hit television show Seinfeld is responsible for more additions to the American lexicon than one might imagine. Even those...
By Maria Finlay Larson Reader Contributor Last year, as I was painting the winter windows in downtown Sandpoint, I had an experience that — at the end of a chaotic year — reaffirmed my...
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist All I want for Christmas is a purpose-driven life — a succes-sion of choices strung together by the clarity of a common goal. I seek depth in my endeavors,...
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 Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist There seems to be some silly idea that a war is being waged on Christmas, that Classical ideas are under fire and are being forced into change by forces...
By Tim Bearly Reader Contributor Children all around the globe are familiar with the tale of Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. Every Christmas, songs are sung and stories are told about the remarkable and heroic...
