By Sandy Compton Reader Contributor I’ve lately confessed to enjoying the writings of Loren Eiseley. If you haven’t gotten one of his books and started reading (with a dictionary handy), I may not be...
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist When I was young, I had a book, I Have Five Pennies, in which a young boy is sent to the store by his mom for groceries. She gives...
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff There’s a patch of shade behind my house hidden under the drooping boughs of ocean spray shrubs. The only markers now separating it from the surrounding forest are the...
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Kids are the creators and caretakers of humanity’s wisdom. Without their innocence, curiosity and ability to dream, none of our great creations or feats would exist. I was recently...
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...
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...
By Scott Taylor Reader Columnist If we are to believe what much of the media – mainstream, social, alt, Russian troll – tells us, narrow-mindedness and intolerance have become the norm in much of...
