Almost at the tipping point
By K.L. HuntleyReader Contributor My much-loved sister and I grew up sharing everything from clothes to friends and faith philosophies. What we did not share in our adult lives was our political views. She...
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Saving the libraries
By K.L. Huntley Reader Contributor It is high time for everyone to sit down and quietly come to their senses. Eons ago I wrote a bad song (all of them fall a little flat)...
Let us work on being united
By K.L. Huntley Reader Contributor I always loved the story of the young people participating in the Special Olympics in Seattle almost 50 years ago. It was the 100-yard dash, the gun went off...
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...
More than wilting violets
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff It was genealogical research that led local author Kathleen Huntley to the story of Flora MacDonald. A first-generation American by way of Scotland on her mother’s side, Huntley could...
The gift of reading
By K.L. Huntley Reader Contributor What seems like several eons and another planet ago, I worked in a men’s correctional facility — in short a prison. One of those great big acre cages, topped...
Growing pains
By K.L. Huntley Reader Contributor A long, long time ago I lived in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in a town originally built during the gold rush of 1849. Without the use of...
Fighting hate groups
By K.L. Huntley Reader Contributor Icy roads and a chill blowing down the snow-covered mountains didn’t deter close to 60 souls gathered at Sandpoint’s First Presbyterian Church on the evening of Nov. 9. They...
The power of words
By K.L. Huntley Reader Contributor Nothing warms the heart more than when someone sincerely tells us they love us — when the cat jumps in your lap and begins to purr or you are...
