The Sandpoint Eater: Traditions reimagined
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Wrapping gifts, planning menus and making shopping lists, baking and lots of parties might be the norm …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Wrapping gifts, planning menus and making shopping lists, baking and lots of parties might be the norm …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
Remember the Willie Nelson song, “To All the Girls I Left Behind?” Me? I’m singing the blues about all the cheeses (and sausages) I recently …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
I recently met three longtime friends for breakfast at Connie’s. We’d barely turned in our standard order or broached our recent travels when the conversation …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
I can’t remember the last time I hosted Christmas, but it was likely 12 or 13 years ago. Once the grandbabies were old enough to …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
It seems like plenty of my pals are coming or going on an epic fishing adventure (or two) this summer. Upon return, they show off …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
Here I go again. I’m leaving this week to escort a small group of adventure-seeking ladies to Spain. When I travel, this column tends to …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnis
Next week, I’m off on a long-planned adventure, though my timing is bittersweet. I’ll be missing my favorite family holiday: Easter. It’s so early this …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
When my anti-train noise neighbors lobbied and won approval for a no-horn zone in Ponder Point, I sorely missed those long, warning whistles from the …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
It’s a wrap, folks. The 16th annual Heart Ball proved as successful as its predecessors. The following night, I watched the Grammys and thought that …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
I was raised a middle-class Irish Catholic, but my grandmother Irma (Gram) still laid some pretty lovely food on our holiday table, and one of …
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