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A Moose Missive: Are They Real?

By Gabriel Cruden / January 30, 2026 /

I was promised a moose. In fact, I was promised a moose once before, so this is nothing new. Are moose promises legal and binding, or are they merely lures…

Hit the Trail with Soph

By Gabriel Cruden / January 30, 2026 /

I stopped making New Year’s resolutions a long time ago when I finally admitted to myself that I like the creating of them more than I enjoy the execution. However,…

Hit the Trail with Soph

By Gabriel Cruden / December 5, 2025 /

It’s been memed to death, but the words of Ned Stark (Game of Thrones) ring true every year in the Inland Northwest: “Winter is coming.” You’d think having lived in…

Let It Snow!

By Gabriel Cruden / December 5, 2025 /

Every year, about mid-November, when you start to see naked trees and feel that certain something in the air, do you say to yourself, “Man, I can’t wait for it…

They Paved Paradise and Put up a Dentist’s Office

By Gabriel Cruden / October 31, 2025 /

There’s a meme going around Facebook that says: “You know you’re old when you drive around and say, ‘I remember when all this was forest.’” As if I needed yet…

Smoke on the Water: The Steamboats of the Pend Oreille

By Gabriel Cruden / October 31, 2025 /

By Robin Milligan If you stepped onto the Newport wharf on a warm July afternoon in 1908, the town would hum with expectation. Men in stiff jackets adjusted their hats,…

Mother’s Day – A Celebration of Love

By Huckleberry Press / May 4, 2016 /

by Bonnie Stichart Are you bothered by the commercialization of Mother’s Day?  If so, you’re not alone.  Anna Jarvis, the “mother” of Mother’s Day, was unhappy with how quickly the…