Charlynn Toews
Charlynn Toews has published in daily and weekly newspapers, national magazines, and loves a good regional. She writes a regular column for Northword from her home in Terrace.
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Worms for sale, and very small eggs
Every year at this time, every June and July, I dream about the small farm I could have.
READ MORE➦Wasps be Like…
Our good friend, my godson, has his birthday in August. Birthday parties involving wiener-roasts often happened at Kleanza Creek just west of Terrace, a shaded area beside cool running water in a lovely setting.
READ MORE➦Village People
“Why you paint your hair like that?” the elderly man demanded of me as I rang up his purchases at Reimer Pharmacy.
READ MORE➦Truest Northerners, 2042—A fanciful look ahead
Five more passing lanes for trains will be added along the tracks between Prince Rupert and Edmonton. In 2011, more than a half million train-car loads moved over the BC north corridor, and could double by 2015. Technology was also upgraded for the trains— some of which are now 12,000 feet long.
READ MORE➦Topsy-turvy February
We can be warned to “Beware the Ides of March” every year. The ides, or midpoint of March, proved fatal to Julius Caesar, who was stabbed by a group of conspirators.
READ MORE➦The stuff in stuffing: A health conundrum
Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book (1950) offers this recipe:
READ MORE➦There and Back Again
As soon as my prairie family came to visit me in Terrace, I would whisk them down Highway 16.
READ MORE➦The impermanence of forts and the importance of ports
Let’s celebrate the anniversary of the publication, on February 18, 1693, of A Treatise of the Roman Ports and Forts of Kent, in which William Somner finds a suspicious place name: “Probably it is not the true, genuine, ancient and original name, but rather a corruption of the right name contracted and caused by that grand corruption as well of names as things, time.”
READ MORE➦Secret camping spots revealed
The McLeod Lake store is just north of a most fabulous secret camping spot I will reveal to you now.
READ MORE➦Really, really good soup
Don’t feel bad when barbecue season is delayed or interrupted by cold, wet weather. Use the opportunity to make homemade chicken noodle soup.
READ MORE➦March/April 2018
Transient workers, tents in the backcountry, travellers and their stories, and much more.
