The Sandpoint Eater: Father fodder
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
Early Sunday morning, armed with a well-wrapped, hot-from-the-oven huckleberry and rhubarb cobbler, I hightailed it to daughter Casey’s home in Spokane. It turns out her …
Tagged: travel
The Sandpoint Eater: Rice is nice
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 …
The Sandpoint Eater: Makes scents
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
When I returned home from my most recent travels and opened the 60-pound suitcase that I’d carried far too often the previous two weeks, it …
The Sandpoint Eater: Pie in the sky
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 …
Internal combustion therapy
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Every spring for the past 20 years or so, around the time when the weather turns warm in earnest, I mark a personal seasonal resurrection: …
A trip to the surreal
By Susan Drinkard
Reader Contributor
A Trip to Bountiful is my all-time favorite movie, but a trip to Syme’s Hot Springs is my favorite trip to the surreal. Having visited …
A warmer melting pot
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
As far back as the 18th century, the melting pot metaphor was used to describe the fusion of various cultures, nationalities, religions and ethnic groups …
Hot springs people
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Hot Springs People. If you know, you know.
While there aren’t any natural hot springs in our immediate region, drive a couple hours in any …
For the love of Idaho winters
By Karissa Huntsman
Reader Contributor
As we all look to the skies hoping for more snow, we need to consider the responsibilities that come with being winter recreationists. From minimizing …
Emily Articulated: Tomorrow’s problems
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
The ground crunched with every step I took, its dirt pocked with vertical frost crystals midway through heaving themselves from their depths to the sky …
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