Hair like Erik’s
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
The more I came to know the recently departed sage of Sandpoint, Erik Daarstad, the more I thought about moving to Norway.
My God, if …
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
The more I came to know the recently departed sage of Sandpoint, Erik Daarstad, the more I thought about moving to Norway.
My God, if …
By Tim Henney
Reader Staff
Downtown bank and Tango Cafe customers who walk past a round table occupied by chuckling (often howling) post-middle-aged merry pranksters (some say old noisy annoyances) …
By Tim H. Henney
Reader Contributor
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” Those historic, heroic words were by British …
By Tim Henney
Reader Staff
Having suffered through a year of COVID-19 and four years of national anguish and global disgrace, “the little things,” as the old song goes (vocals …
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
My 1957 Cal-Berkeley bride is staring 86 in the face and has an underlying medical condition, which makes her a COVID-19 magnet. I am 89 …
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
Every New Year’s day I watch the Rose Bowl football game and become wistful. The camera always pans to the San Gabriel foothills above the …
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
This article is mainly for Sandpoint dogsters. What is a Sandpoint dogster? It is a citizen who couldn’t imagine walking in a park or on …
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
Several evenings ago my 1957 bride, our visiting and aging (58!) adult daughter, son-in-law and dog Tippy were driving home with cartons of Thai and …
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
This plea is on behalf of the handful of doddering, post-dotage Sandpointians who, during our fair town’s annual Lost in the ‘50s, wander First Ave. …
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
Among the most cherished books in my personal library are those by author/artist/humorist James Thurber, one of the lynchpins of the early New Yorker magazine. …
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