A few thoughts … On spring and winter
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist Spring managed to surprise me this year. Again. I walked to the river and discovered fresh-grown catkins hanging from an errant Sitka alder that has taken root in the...
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A few thoughts … On Vladimir Putin and Ukraine
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist “There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.” —Winston Churchill In 2001, I had...
A few thoughts … On winter and our fellow travelers
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist A bobcat is traveling around the homestead these days, teaching snowshoe hares and ruffed grouse to pay attention, a good and proper thing for a bobcat to do. I...
A few thoughts: On Something and SDRs
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist At Oakland Airport, I await a flight to Spokane, the last leg home from Seattle. It’s a roundabout way to get there, but it fits the day, which has...
A few thoughts … on the meaning of Christmas
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist As I’ve grown older, the glistening promise of the winter holiday has become a little tarnished. That’s not to say I haven’t had wonderful Christmases, because I have, but there...
A few thoughts…
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist There’s a joke about Ivano’s Ristorante Italiano, a Sandpoint institution for 37 years: Question: “Where’s the best Italian restaurant in Spokane?” Answer: “In Sandpoint.” Alas, no more. I enjoyed...
A Few Thoughts…
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist Having survived COVID-19 and feeling sort of — but not completely — immune, I recently traveled down Mexico way. I didn’t go into Mexico, except just a tiny bit,...
A few thoughts on surviving COVID-19
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist I promised myself I would write something light and funny this month. But then, I went to town. I hadn’t been for a while. I’d been pretty much holed...
Unpacking Sandy Compton’s newest book, The Dog With His Head On Sideways
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For local author and man-about-country Sandy Compton, writing about his native land and the characters who occupy it is… complicated. Like any steadfast native of this region, Compton walks...
More than a few thoughts on America past, present and future
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist I am ranging through the Great American Trail Series, 10 books edited by A.B. Guthrie, Jr. and published in the 1960s. They each have a different author, including Wallace...
