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 political climate, was directed...
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. The Today Show reported...
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 the problem. Alas, it’s...
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 capital-S “Someone.” She had...
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, I don’t want to...
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 begging for attention at...
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. And, oh, how my...
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 to a tree or...
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” at all of our...
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 in our inability to...
