From the Panhandle
Cate Huisman
Providing a perspective from Idaho's far north.
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Cate Huisman is a freelance writer currently based in Sandpoint, Idaho. She appreciates the area for its intense natural beauty and easy access to things she likes to do: skiing, mountain biking, sailing, hiking, shoveling snow (really!), and foraging for mushrooms, although they usually rot in the refrigerator because she is too timid to eat them. She also really likes living pretty much nowhere, but appreciates the internet for it ability to connect her to pretty much everywhere.
As someone who works from home in a small town, Cate enjoys living a car-minimal lifestyle. On bike-to-work day, she biked downtown, signed in at the local bike shop, and then biked back home. A small-town existence has also given her an opportunity, not to say a responsibility, to become involved in local affairs. She was a founding member of the Sandpoint Charter School’s board of directors and has served on Bonner County’s Youth Accountability Board; currently she is a member of Sandpoint’s Planning and Zoning Commission. In her copious spare time, she warbles an indecisive tenor in the Pend Oreille Chorale and neglects her vegetable garden.
Cate grew up in Portland, Oregon, and has lived in several other cities in the northwest.
