In Notes & Errata, Mark Morford, the well-known online columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, writes about his annual getaway in the Sandpoint area: "Every summer of my existence, I’ve spent at least a week or two – if not major portions of my childhood – up at a postcard-perfect family getaway cabin in northernmost Idaho, on a stunning lake called Pend Oreille, mere minutes from a scrappy little Western town called Sandpoint (surviving though “sheer grit and perseverance,” according to the NYT). Magical barely begins to cover it." He goes on to wax poetic about our magical part of the woods. But this year, he said, the wildfires have changed everything. More here.