Post Falls Mayor Clay Larkin, Police Chief Cliff Hayes and Post Falls PD Lt. Greg McLean pose with the torch at the Post Falls Police Department/KerriT, OnLocation North Idaho. More here. 

How To Win A Husband: My fellow blogger Bay View Herb asked a little favor of me to share a love story, in particular my love story with my husband. He only asked for 100 to 200 words but as I sat down to write how my husband and I met and why we are still together after all these years, I realized I had more than 200 words to share. I don't want to spoil Herb's article so I won't disclose any of the tidbits I gave him but I will share how I won my husband in a bet/Sparky's Notes. More here.

• A word a day -- ex parte/Community Comment
• The fragility of life/Dogwalk Musings
• Special Olympics torch comes to Kellogg/Silver Valley Stories
• An owed/Slight Detour
• Spring In Winter Haiku/Tumblewords

• Gas price race is on again/Simple Mind\
• Reading like a writer/Gathering Around The Table
• Zombies: The new road hazard/Kootenai MPO
• What's on your list?/Live, Love, Laugh, Hope
• My miranda warning/MamaJD
• Is there some reason my coffee isn't here? Has she died or something?/PDX Pup
• A fitting change of scenery/Rants, Raves & Random Thoughts
• The light goes on over Marblehead (scroll down)/Life's A Freak Show
• Jim Wallis on economic crisis/Wayward Episcopalian

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