Kerri Thoreson
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Primary a marathon for candidates
I’ve been feeling empathy for all of the candidates with their names on the primary election ballot this year. Nothing has been normal in the three-month lead up to the election, which was supposed to take place on…
Zoom can’t replace in-person meetings
What we know is that from this day forward there will be changes in many areas of our personal and professional lives. Something I won’t miss when we fully open is video conferencing that’s replaced meetings and ga…
Enjoy the baby steps to normalcy, quietly
It takes a lot to steal my joy when May comes around but holy cow, this just might be the year. We’ve had lots of sunshine, relaxing of business closures in stages and the optimistic yet, delusional expectation tha…
Life lessons learned from a friend
I imagine there are quite a list of things that happened in the days since I filed last week’s Main Street column. But it seems time stood still as our friends Rich and Pam Houser were dealt a blow in Rich’s three-…
Diary of a shut-in, Week 6.5
As the month of April comes to a close we’re in the home stretch of Idaho’s stay-at-home order, which ends on May 1. The first stage of reopening businesses has begun, which unfortunately for those in the third and…
Diary of a shut-in, Week 6
The name of this column for decades has been Main Street. For quite a few years my personalized license plates have read MAIN ST. The phrase Main Street describes, collectively, everyday working class people and sm…
Diary of a shut-in, Week 5
Although I describe my proverbial glass as overflowing for the most part, the weeks of isolation and lack of real-life contact with family and friends is taking a toll. My emotions have been right at the surface. I…
Diary of a shut-in, week 4
“Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing things historians usually record; while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes,…
Diary of a shut-in, week 3
When we were ringing in the new year three short months ago none of us could have imagined just how profoundly life as we knew it would be changed in the near future. It would have seemed like an April Fools prank.…
Diary of a shut-in, Week 2
Everyone is looking for diversions within the four walls of their house. I’d like to thank Amber Fiedler for providing some fun escapism via American Idol. This talented young woman made it to the Top 40 out of lit…
Replace fear with faith during crisis
Here’s what I know to be true ... the sun will rise tomorrow. Other than that things are changing so quickly in our little corner of the world — and the whole world — it’s hard not to get whiplash watching and read…
Pro tips for amateur St. Patrick’s partiers
When I received the results of my Ancestry.com DNA test a year ago my first thought was that I’d been under-celebrating St. Patrick’s Day all of my life. While England and Wales are my predominant origins, Ireland …
There’s a word for everything
It may be the affect of a long winter but geesh, the world has become such a serious place. Not that there aren’t genuinely serious things happening but it does seem that we’ve misplaced our collective sense of hum…
There's a word for everything
It may be the affect of a long winter but geesh, the world has become such a serious place. Not that there aren’t genuinely serious things happening but it does seem that we’ve misplaced our collective sense of hum…
Allergies: Nothing to sneeze at
My friend Taryn Thompson had her first ER visit for an allergic reaction last week. I’m sharing some excellent tips she has for anyone with anaphylactic allergies and for those who work in the food service industry.