The Lumberjill: Idaho — love it or leave it?
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
If you don’t like Idaho’s values, then leave.
This rhetorical dead end, usually aimed at anyone feeling a modicum of consternation regarding our state’s …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
If you don’t like Idaho’s values, then leave.
This rhetorical dead end, usually aimed at anyone feeling a modicum of consternation regarding our state’s …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
The closure of Bonner General’s labor and delivery unit is the talk of the town. In fact, it is the talk of the nation. …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
For a second, we worried that we were a tree service without a crew.
For a second, we worried that my politics might be …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
Once upon a time, we had a client named Elaine. Once upon an earlier time, she was something of a painterly powerhouse. She was …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
My little one was nervous for the first day of school. The entire drive found her curled in the fetal position, reciting the mantra, …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
A friend recently sent me a New Yorker cartoon. Depicted in it is a harried woman wearing a baby, a child and a dog …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
This morning, for the first time since our daughter started attending her new school, I dressed like a normal person for the morning drop-off. …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Staff
As the lone female on the crew, the bathroom situation is typically the most challenging for me. While the guys can simply sidle up …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
North Idaho recently made the national news cycle thanks to the fact that we’re currently rationing health care, operating under “crisis standards of care” …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
We received our first negative review recently. It came from someone we’ve never even met, let alone worked for. It came from someone disappointed …
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