STURGIS Some of our friends and neighbors travel on motorcycles for an annual Beartooth Pass ride near Red Lodge, Montana. A few years...

GRAY’S ANATOMY Last month I received a note of appreciation from Dr. Foster Hall regarding UPSTREAM IDAHO. Foster and I were both born...

Over 20 years ago, Colin Powell was holding a press conference where he announced that he was not going to be a candidate for the United...

In Genesis, we read that Satan appeared to Eve in the form of a serpent, tempting her to take a bite of the forbidden fruit. Had Satan...

When Ann Marie Anthony asked me to send her a picture for this column, I was surprised at my photo. I was not ticked off, angry or upset,...

COWBIKING In 1979 I took Mary Kay to see “The Electric Horseman” with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. It was our last year in St. Louis...

SCHADENFREUDE A few years ago I had to be in two places 90 miles apart at the same time. The annual meeting of the Welling Addition...

THE STELLER’S JAY THE STELLER’S JAY “The Shack” is a 2007 New York Times best-seller. The basis for the story is a grieving father’s...

There are some nice pontoon boats on the Island Park Reservoir, but pontoon boat stories are not as good as houseboat stories. Something...

Like most of us, I don’t like my picture. I don’t even like the one at the top of this column. I’m told that I appear to be too serious....

When it comes to women, I am easily confused. My three daughters were at the table when I entered the kitchen one morning. I said, “Good...

It was one of those scenes that I could not immediately process. While it was not unusual to step out of Walker’s Cafe on a Friday night...

A few summers back, there was an explosion of cicadas in Island Park. These insects are developmentally synchronized and emerge in any...

LA CAILLE La Caille is an elegant five star restaurant at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon, a short way off the road leading to...

Earth Day 2020 will forever live in the minds of my grandchildren. When they woke up that morning who would have thought that they would...

In 1969, I was held captive in Toronto for a 13-hour marathon meeting that was way out of control. Once the shell-shock had faded, I...

My father, Asael Tall, M.D., was a physician in Rigby, Idaho for nearly 50 years. He, and his identical twin, Aldon, opened the Tall...

EASTER IN JERUSALEM It was one of those phone calls in the middle of the night that no one wants to get. In 1994, a ringing bedside...