Tagged: philosophy

Back of the Book / Ben Olson / Memories / Personal history / Sports and Outdoors

April 30, 2025

Don’t lose sight of the game

By Ben Olson
Reader Staff

There was a time when sports were just about everything in my life. Every summer, my dad loaded us in the car and drove across …

Emily Articulated / Emily Erickson / Health / Living Life / Opinion

March 12, 2025

Emily Articulated: I worried

By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist

I’m not sure exactly when I became a worrier. Maybe it was dormant throughout a tumultuous childhood and brazen, chaotic 20s. My worry couldn’t have …

Community Happenings / Movie Reviews / Movies and Theater / panida theater / Zach Hagadone

January 29, 2025

Panida screens Groundhog Day for $5 on Groundhog Day

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

Anyone who works in local media knows the peculiar exhaustion that goes with covering the same event year after year. There are only so many …

Back of the Book / Opinion / Sandy Compton

December 18, 2024

A few thoughts… On Loren Eiseley and thinking for yourself

By Sandy Compton
Reader Contributor

I’ve lately confessed to enjoying the writings of Loren Eiseley. If you haven’t gotten one of his books and started reading (with a dictionary handy), …

Back of the Book / Local Elections / Memories / Opinion / Personal history / Politics / Sandy Compton

November 13, 2024

A few thoughts… on Nov. 6 at 8:30 a.m.

By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist

When I was young, I had a book, I Have Five Pennies, in which a young boy is sent to the store by his mom …

Back of the Book / Education / History / Memories / Opening Hearts and Minds / Opinion / Pets & Animals / Politics / Soncirey Mitchell

July 17, 2024

Together in the graveyard

By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff

There’s a patch of shade behind my house hidden under the drooping boughs of ocean spray shrubs. The only markers now separating it from the …

Humor / Living Life / Opinion / Pets & Animals

December 27, 2023

Sing, arachnid, sing

By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff

Kids are the creators and caretakers of humanity’s wisdom. Without their innocence, curiosity and ability to dream, none of our great creations or feats would …