A Few Thoughts… On sergeants, generals and firefights
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
In Missoula is a house on North Street referred to by its occupants as the Food Shack. It’s home to college students, recent graduates and …
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
In Missoula is a house on North Street referred to by its occupants as the Food Shack. It’s home to college students, recent graduates and …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Humanity’s desire to endlessly create and reimagine slang gets us all in the end. Everyone wakes up one day, only to discover that the kids …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Poets are students of humanity. It’s the poet’s job to witness the horrifying, gorgeous, nonsensical world and condense it, wrap it in metaphor and deliver …
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
I got the call on a Sunday afternoon… It was a neighbor of my folks back in Walla Walla, where I grew up. I was …
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