Family

Growing up on a dairy farm north of Deer Park, Mike Reiter, 68, spent plenty of time around cattle, and there were always a few horses in the barn.“But we were never cowboys,” he said.That’s why one year he was a bit puzzled by his father’s Christmas gift.

Space has captured the imagination of humans throughout history. Even today, with all our developments here on Earth, space still holds endless mysteries. If you love to dream about space, and maybe need a bit of fun, escapist learning, then head over to YouTube.

Madelyn Buckley, a Nome Eskimo Community registered member, has roots closer to Spokane. She excelled in high school academics and distance running, now covering ground for Whitworth's track and cross-country teams.

Even as more children across the United States head back to in-person school – some for the first time in nearly a year – hybrid and virtual models mean that in many cases, kids are doing at least some of their learning at home.

When Dori Hillestad Butler’s adult daughter visited for the first time after adopting a cat, it was obvious her childhood dog – who still lives with Butler – noticed there was a newcomer in the family.

There are all kinds of birds on our planet, and they migrate to different places. My friend Heather Watts, a researcher at WSU, is really curious about bird migration and told me more about how birds know where to go.

After my son Eddie failed to deliver a glass of water in a timely manner last spring, his girlfriend assaulted him. Scratch marks were etched into the back of his neck. The attack from behind was capped with Eddie's iPhone being shattered.

According to the internet, a glutton for punishment is “someone who habitually takes on burdensome or unpleasant tasks” and is “a person who continues to do things whose consequences they find difficult or unpleasant.”

Michele Craft and her daughter Lauren Seals have watched sales and customer numbers rise during the pandemic for a family-operated scrapbooking supply store, the Coop, in Airway Heights and online at 3craftchicks.com.

The weather Friday was cold, but that didn’t stop family and friends of June Syverson from driving by the South Hill Rockwood Senior Community to wish her a happy 100th birthday.

People were often stuck at home in 2020 as the pandemic forced adults to work from home and children to do virtual online learning. With few places to go, books became an important way to escape for a little while.

Heirloom: A valuable object that has belonged to a family for several generations. What do we do with our heirlooms? The closest thing I have to an heirloom is a 40-inch by 26-inch oil painting of a woodland scene by German artist M. Berner-Hardt.

When Thomas Detillion, 23, graduated from Gonzaga University with a degree in engineering management this spring, he knew his career would most likely take him away from his hometown. He also knew it might take time to find his dream job.

But Nine Mile Falls resident Diane Morissette derived satisfaction from completing smaller goals, easily achievable even in the midst of a pandemic, aand she thought her friends and neighbors might enjoy that feeling, too.

Nine Mile Falls resident Jeanie Hyer is known among her family and friends for her pies and soft peanut brittle. Pushed by a desire to pass on her knowledge, she has self-published a cookbook titled “The Suncrest Pie Lady’s Famous Pies and Other Favorites.”

This is usually the first activity on anybody’s snow day list, but there are a lot of fun ways to shake up this family tradition. Try your luck against gravity and make an upside down snowman using twigs and socks to make it look like his feet are pointing up. 

Check and Connect is a newly ramped-up program of Aging & Long Term Care of Eastern Washington with a goal to reduce social isolation and victim abuse among senior and disabled populations during the pandemic. The program began slowly in March.

I always felt like Jack Kerouac every Presidents Day weekend since it meant that my boys and I would be on the road. One if not both of my sons would play in an ice hockey tournament, often in some far-flung city.

Happy Birthday, George: The official federal holiday is Washington's Birthday for our first president. After George Washington's death in 1799, people used his birthday – Feb. 22, 1732 – as a day of remembrance. It became a federal holiday in 1885.