Former meth mom blogosphere’s newest star

Yeah, yeah, you know that Kendra Goodrick-Martinez is free again, to be with the two lights of her life, husband, Tony, and baby Jameson. But did you know that she’s the newest blogger in the North Idaho blogosphere? Kendra, the ex-meth-mom-gone-straight who was subject of a tug-of-war between Judge John Mitchell and the prosecutor’s office, got bit by the blog bug after she was released from prison recently. If her first post is an indication of insights to come, you need to check out her blog, Soul Doubt. (A link to it is posted under the North Idaho Blogroll at Huckleberries Online.) She hit the ground running last week by revealing what it’s like to be subject to a search at any time by Idaho Corrections officers: “… although I had nothing to hide, it still quickened my pulse and caused my thoughts to race. I caught myself holding my infant son unnecessarily tight as I surreptitiously tried to decipher everything they did and said during the short stay. They were here perhaps three or four minutes, yet it felt like eternity.” Then, she poses a rhetorical question: “How does one describe the lack of freedom to someone who’d always had it?” And continues: “I have no problem jumping through the numerous hoops and paying the never-ending costs – of supervision, of urinalysis, of court fines, fees and restitution. Again. Just please don’t ever send me back to jail.” Kendra’s voice is one that mainstream society seldom hears – that of someone who has been to hell and back and is willing to describe that journey candidly to others.

•By 37 percent to 30 percent, a plurality of 114 respondents to a Huckleberries Online weekend poll chose the Coeur d’Alene Press Print Building over The Lofts condos on Sherman Avenue as the ugliest new building in town. Congratulations?