Absent Friends; a Stroll in Morris Hill Cemetery
You never know when or where you might encounter people you haven’t seen in years. It can happen anytime, sometimes in unexpected places. A cemetery, for example. A few days before Memorial Day, I made my annual pilgrimage to Morris Hill Cemetery to lay flowers on the graves of my parents. It…
Onetime Home Oozes Memories
Nothing brings back childhood memories like revisiting old haunts. The people who live in the North Boise home where I grew up contacted me recently to say that after 20 years there, they were putting it on the market. Would I be interested in visiting it again before the open house? The woman…
Can the Dead Speak to Us?
Can people who have died communicate with us? Good question. One no one has definitively answered. Lots of stories out there, but definitive? Still, sometimes you have to wonder. My last column was about a woman who died not long after writing her life story. Tish Lewis was an Owyhee County…
New Life for Long Vacant Bus Station
The building was dark, silent, empty. Paper cups and other debris littered the floor. It was as if the once busy transit hub had been forgotten, destined to spend the rest of its days as a relic of a gone era. The old Greyhound bus station at 1212 W. Bannock Street in downtown Boise…
Our Coolest Buildings; Ideas, anyone?
My late father was a building junkie. He was keenly interested in any new building of note that was going up in his adopted home of Boise, occasionally taking me with him to construction sites to watch the work being done. Some of his passion for building-watching rubbed off on me. I’ve been known…
Author Losing Eyesight, Needs Help to Finish ‘Bronco Billy II’ book
If there’s one movie Idahoans can relate to through personal experience more than any other, it would have to be Clint Eastwood’s “Bronco Billy.” The movie was filmed in 1979 at more than 20 locations in Southwest Idaho – Lake Lowell, the Nampa and Boise train depots, the Meridian Speedway and Fort Boise…
Help in Times of Need: The Unexpected Kindness of Strangers
Sometimes when we really need it, we get help from people we’ve never laid eyes on until we need them most. It happened to my wife and me many years ago in Davis, Calif. Our car had broken down on a Friday night at the beginning of a three-day holiday weekend so we…
New Puppy is a Chewing Machine
Everyone loves a puppy, but they tend to come with some bad habits – crying, excessive barking, jumping up on people … The new puppy at the Woodwards’ house doesn’t have any of those habits, but she does have one that’s truly annoying, to say nothing of expensive. She reminds me of…
Commercial Art: a Mini-History Lesson
When we think of artists, we tend to think of Rembrandt, Van Gogh, O’Keeffe, Picasso … Fine artists. There’s another kind of art, however, done by artists who aren’t famous, but their work is ubiquitous. We see it every day, on everything from billboards to cereal boxes. Commercial art is used primarily for…
Christmas is About More Than Gifts
Good morning, and Merry Christmas Eve Day to you. Christmas Eve is the main event of Christmas at our house, much more so than Christmas morning. My wife is busy preparing goodies days in advance – cookies, pie, homemade fudge … The entire clan gathers in the living room to open gifts. It’s…
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