March 31, 2019 at 3:00 am
Forty years ago I was at an estate auction in Moorhead, Minnesota, buying an antique oak dresser when I spotted a large, leather-bound Bible for sale.This was no ordinary Bible. The old, sculpted leather cover is embossed with gold trim, an...
March 17, 2019 at 3:00 am
I came across a YouTube video last week about “kulning,” the ancient Swedish herding calls used by women centuries ago to call the cattle back home to the farm in the evenings.The melodic calls had a soothing, yet haunting quality that mesm...
March 03, 2019 at 3:00 am
I know I’m stating the obvious, but it’s been an agonizingly long winter. In our 28 years of living in the Flathead, I can’t remember another winter when our long, rural driveway has been made impassable so many times by drifting snow. (We ...
February 17, 2019 at 3:00 am
I routinely get Facebook posts from an entertainment website called “Grew Up in the ’70s and ’80s,” and had to laugh when it recently declared this observation about the telltale 1980s hairstyles most of us remember: “Hair so big it had its...
February 03, 2019 at 3:00 am
Here’s my dilemma: every time I think about downsizing I am bombarded with information about new products, some of which seem too good to pass up. Then, like the dog whose attention is diverted to chasing the nearest cat, I’m off and runnin...
January 20, 2019 at 3:00 am
My mother’s 90th birthday is today. It’s a milestone she won’t remember.She was born on Jan. 20, 1929, into a hardscrabble life on a farm in northern Minnesota, the youngest of five children whose parents toiled to pull a living out of the ...
January 06, 2019 at 3:00 am
I was paging through last week’s Hungry Horse News and was impressed by the number of stories that talked about the growth and development happening in Columbia Falls these days.One article noted the transformation of Nucleus Avenue — the t...
December 09, 2018 at 3:00 am
Remember the headline on my column a few weeks ago? “Accidents can happen anytime, anywhere.”Little did I know how prophetic those words would be just a day later. I was racing against time on Nov. 19 to get to bell-choir practice in Whitef...
November 18, 2018 at 3:00 am
Those of us classified as baby boomers tend to boast about how wild and free our childhoods were.Kids of our era romped through the woods and climbed trees unsupervised. We rode bikes without helmets and ice-skated without protective gear. ...
November 04, 2018 at 3:00 am
When Karlene Khor started an eclectic pop-up store on Main Street in Kalispell earlier this year, she had no idea it would open the door to some pretty interesting inventory.Her shop, Seasons, is open four to six weeks at a time, four times...
