Emily Articulated: Efficiency, connection
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist What if efficiency sits at one end of a long spectrum — our ability to perform tasks or produce results with the least waste of time, resources or energy? We...
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Perfect Days, at the Panida, contemplates the simplicity of a well-lived life
By Reader Staff It’s a well-worn concept that from small, intentional actions can come good — even great — things, which is the animating idea behind the 2023 film Perfect Days, which will screen...
Emily Articulated: Presentness
By Emily Erickson Reader Staff The holidays often prompt a lot of reflection, turning me inward as much as pulling me outward. Maybe it’s the ritual of stringing lights and pulling ornaments out of...
Mike’s Corner: It came to me
By Mike Wagoner Reader Contributor I hang tomato plants upside down in the windows of my cabin just before the frost, allowing all those green ones to slowly ripen as the late fall kicks...
In search of conkers
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff My old Montessori school once stood imposingly tall — for a toddler — between the Sandpoint Charter School and the roaring traffic of U.S. Highway 2. I remember it...
Emily Articulated: Estate sale
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist I Googled, “How to organize an estate sale,” staring at my screen as the six-step description bounced off my eyes, not quite penetrating my brain. Blinking to concentrate, I...
LIving Life: Become the Voice for a Foster Child — Become a CASA
By Dianne Smith Reader Columnist A foster child’s journey is one like no other, and often they feel unheard. They are placed in the homes of strangers where they are left to figure out...
Living Life: Winter time blues
By Dianne Smith Reader Columnist As the time changes and the days get shorter, people often struggle with feeling down or like they have less energy. That often gets compounded by the number of...
Living Life: Country trauma and healing
By Dianne Smith Reader Columnist Once again our country is in a state of acute stress. We’ve experienced something so horrific that we struggle to make sense of it and cannot. This traumatic experience...
Living Life: Helping children in troubled times
By Dianne Smith Reader Columnist As grownups, we, too, have been traumatized by the recent events in the world, and with the recent school shooting in Spokane it hit really close to home. We...
