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Riding the Empire Builder | Cheryl-Anne Millsap
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From: Spokane Public Radio
The train going east leaves Spokane just after 1 a.m. and winds its way behind downtown buildings and along the edge of the city. The scene from my wide window is a view I ...
Winter in Glacier National Park | Cheryl-Anne Millsap
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From: Spokane Public Radio
We drove into the west entrance of Glacier National Park late in the clear February morning and our tires crunched into the frozen crust of last week’s snowfall. The cold, ...
Cheryl-Anne Millsap: Valentine's Day
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From: Spokane Public Radio
The author reminds her loved ones that the valentines keep coming all year long.
Cheryl-Anne Millsap: The Carol of the Bells
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From: Spokane Public Radio
The Salvation Army bell ringer, bundled up to stay warm in weather that has turned brutal overnight, stands just beside the front door of the busy store. Ringing the bell, ...
Cheryl-Anne Millsap: Eyes Wide Open
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From: Spokane Public Radio
A lot goes on in the darkest part of the night. You miss it if you’re sleeping.
Cheryl-Anne Millsap: The poetry of Carl Sandburg
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From: Spokane Public Radio
The poetry of Carl Sandburg, read from a big, well-thumbed volume that belonged to my grandfather, was my ticket to the wider world.
Contact
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From: Spokane Public Radio
A busy family stops for a minute in a little downtown cafe. A bustling, busy place. And while the others talked and laughed and ate their pastries, an old woman and a very ...
In Bed with Ebenezer. (To be aired on Christmas Eve)
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From: Spokane Public Radio
I burrowed under the covers with my 100-year-old copy of "A Christmas Carol." "Marley was dead, to begin with.." Six little words and I was lost in the story. Lost in the ...
I don't want to see Christmas today
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From: Spokane Public Radio
A little boy waits in line to see Santa. Suddenly, everything - the big, tree; Santa; the crowds - all loomed too large. "I don't want to see Christmas today," he cried...
Cheryl-Anne Millsap: Cold comfort
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From: Spokane Public Radio
This time of year, even when the spirit isn’t really there at all, we can decorate and party and shop ourselves into a state of manufactured joy. But comfort is impossible ...
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It seems a shame to drive right over or alongside a river without slowing down for a closer look, to be so blind to the beauty. Because a river is a wild and wonderful thing.
We talk about the draw of the ocean. Of the need to see the waves crash and to smell the salt air. We spend our summers at play on the lake, speeding over the glassy surface on boats and jet skis or paddling along silently on canoes and kayaks.
But too often we take for granted the working waters of the rivers that travel the land around us.
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Special to The Spokesman-Review Pinch
By Cheryl-Anne Millsap
Waking early in the February morning, it took a minute to get my bearings in the dark Missoula hotel room before I dressed for the day’s drive. We were crossing a swath of the wide Flathead Valley in Northwest Montana and I wanted to take advantage of the wintery sunlight. The days are short in the Northwest this time of year with precious little sunlight between the dark of morning and dark of night.
Stopping to pick up a pastry and a cup of coffee, we crossed the Clark Fork River on our way out of town. The sun was just coming up and the sky along the horizon was fading, changing from a deep indigo to violet to plum.
The river, already awake, already on the move, snaked quietly between snowy banks following the curves it had already cut, centuries before. It seems a shame to drive right over or alongside a river without...
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