“Let me see the belt is gone, Dad,” Novalie said. We were parked next to a Conoco gas station in Wallace, ID, late Friday evening. The sun was setting, and the green mountain walls on either side of us were darkening. The air was becoming still and cold. The light turned yellow on the faces [...]
“Yes, Novalie. When I was a kid, the houses all had colors, and the sky was bright blue.”
We drove the Albion highway toward home under the pale sun of the frigid Palouse hills as Novalie sat strapped to her booster seat in the back of the Taurus and “Fix You” by Coldplay played on the speakers. You may have heard “Fix You” by accident if you watched the “Arsenal: The Beautiful Game” [...]
The sun had been up for a couple of hours, and was just starting to warm the Southern Idaho desert as I took the exit from Broadway in Boise to westbound I-84. There is something familiar about the desert here, the wide expanse of flat, brown earth dotted with tumbleweeds. Green forest and tall mountains [...]
It was too hard not to watch the high school students as they walked past in their various groups. We occasionally watched some football as well. We decided that it would be good Friday night fun to go to a high school football game. The atmosphere, the energy, and Novalie was sure to love all [...]