The advantage of a good work ethic is that you’ve earned your dream vacation, even if you can’t afford it this year. Some people dream of fine sand beaches in exotic locales. For others it’s an adventurous safari in Africa. Mine would be a week in Coeur d’Alene a week …
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Have you ever felt like you don’t fit in? It doesn’t really matter if it’s because you came from the Andromeda galaxy or just another country. It’s a lonely feeling.
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Love is the mainspring that keeps our clocks ticking. When you’re young it runs too fast and then in a heartbeat you’re my age and happy it’s running at all.
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I started traveling just fresh out of diapers. My mother has photos of me at the age of 3 in a harness attached to a cable that ran from our house to the garage so I wouldn’t wander off. I started hitchhiking around Wisconsin in high school just for the …
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L.J. Krumenacker, an Idaho native, discovered fossilized eggs of a large Oviraptorosaur along with fossils of the carnivore Tyrannosaurus in North Idaho. That’s old news.
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Coeur d’Alene is not without its own Irish myths, such as the legend of a long lost journal kept by an Irish immigrant who worked at Fort Sherman in the 1890s. The story goes that Sean Cleary’s journal was found 10 feet under hallowed ground while removing an abandoned septic …
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My vet tells me our dog has Presumptive Cognitive Disorder. That explains why he keeps crapping on the kitchen floor every morning. Our dog, not the vet.
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Population demographics for 2017 reveal only 3,563 people in Coeur d’Alene are older than 65. That means 40,574 never saw Howdy Doody, Soupy Sales or “American Bandstand.” No great loss when it came to Soupy Sales.
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While most Americans will be watching football on New Year’s Day, many will be desperately trying to remember where they left their pants the night before. I haven’t been to a New Year’s Eve party in decades because, frankly, no one in their right mind would ever invite me twice. …
Check out any Christmas card and the best of them look exactly like Coeur d’Alene after a freshly fallen snow. At this time of the year we all want to live in your town. If Santa owned a condo it would be in Coeur d’Alene. I grew up in Wisconsin …
Thanksgiving is the one day when 75 percent of Americans celebrate both family and football. The other 25 percent will be watching either soccer or bowling, and that number appears to be increasing. These are not good days for the NFL. In their defense I have to admit I’ve never …
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The only thing scarier than Halloween was my second honeymoon. Grotesque masks, glow-in-the-dark costumes and brain-damaging strobe lights all night long!
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Anyone who ever said “Dogs are man’s best friend” has never been caught on the smelly side of a doggy poop bag. No matter how cute the dog is, why does their poop have to smell so bad? It makes a dirty diaper smell like a walk through a tulip …
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