(Photo by Cheryl-Anne Millsap) In the memory, we are walking down the wide stone steps--I must have been no more than five or six at the time--and I was holding my grandfather’s hand as we left an upper floor of the public library and made…
Not that there’s ever been any shortage of evidence, but my three older children now have solid proof that we love the youngest more. By their standards, of course. When I was raising my three older children, three little stairsteps born in just under six…
(Photo by Cheryl-Anne Millsap) I had a single ticket for the Rocky Mountaineer, the luxurious train that crosses some of the most scenic routes in Canada. So did the woman in the seat beside me. We boarded in Vancouver, British Columbia and for two days…
Each October I honor my grandmother, a breast cancer survivor, by re-posting this 2006 column. She was, and will always be, an inspiration and a guiding force in my life. CAM The Home Planet: Community potent weapon against breast cancer Cheryl-Anne Millsap Staff writer Oct…
(Photo by Cheryl-Anne Millsap) Like someone who had looked straight into the baking sun, the hot New Mexico desert, a landscape of painted sand and strange towering rock formations, was burned into my mind’s eye. Even as I settled into the window seat of the…
(Photo courtesy Georgia O'Keefe Museum) Coronado led the expedition to what would eventually become the state of New Mexico seeking a king’s ransom in gold. But what he found instead was a wide, burning landscape of stark contradictions and unique natural beauty; a land of…
Cheryl-Anne Millsap's Home Planet column appears each week in the Wednesday "Pinch" supplement. Cheryl-Anne is a regular contributor to Spokane Public Radio and her essays can be heard on Public Radio stations across the country.