Jeanne Huff

While many luxuriate in reading verbose tomes that could make a doorstop cower (looking at you, Stephen King readers), writing short is a talent unto itself. Being able to write a story in brief takes a wordsmith extraordinaire. One must cull any word that is not necessary. One must assemble sentences and paragraphs that can practically do a magic trick, creating an expansive world with few words that the reader can fall into and roll around in.

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The New Year’s Day Rose Parade features floats bedecked by flowers — more than 18 million of them — which are lovingly created by volunteers who toil for over 80,000

About a thousand people attended the Idaho Women's March rally on Saturday. Jeanne Huff

Would you like to be in the room where it happened?

Pictured: Abdikadir and Khadija Mberwa live in Kuna and run their own farming business, Mberwa Farms, through Global Gardens, a program of the Idaho Office for Refugees. Photo courtesy of Global Gardens

Would you like to be in the room where it happened?

of 3 Would you like to be in the room where it happened? The electric Broadway show "Hamilton" is now up at the Morrison through Feb. 2.

People came to the Capitol on Tuesday to commemorate the 10 year anniversary of the failed Add the Words bill. Jeanne Huff