Editorial
The Slow Season
Time can be such an unfaithful friend, too often rushing by like the white quickness of a turbulent river. Thankfully, though, there are things in life which are suited to slowing down. Winter is one, for me anyway.
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Who Loves the Sun?
Without that big yellow ball of fire in the sky, none of us would exist. But sometimes fire is what we least desire.
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The Lost & Found for Memories
What would it be like to try on someone else’s memories? An intrusion? Or the ultimate intimacy?
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When Dark is Light
The dark is mystery. It is the unknown. It can be comforting or terrifying, or both at the same time.
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The Future is a Strange Beast
Fear of the future is pointless. There's no escape from our perceived passage of time. “At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.” Haruki Murakami.
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Welcome to the Truth
If Truth can be found at the bottom of a bottle, it can also be found in the crumbs of a vanished sandwich.
READ MORE➦Surviving change
On my drive home, I see a mountain in the Telkwa Range just south of the Bulkley Valley. Every time I see that mountain I think, Now there’s a survivor!
READ MORE➦Time to Put Me Out to Pasture
On days when work and life and everything that’s crazy in the universe converge at a singularity inside my head, I get overwhelmed to the point of having trouble speaking.
READ MORE➦Take a right instead of a left
I played hooky and went for a drive. And what did I discover? That I can still be amazed by how little I know about where I live.
READ MORE➦The three Rs of pest control
Pest: “A destructive insect or other animal that attacks crops, food, livestock, etc.” Also, “An annoying person or thing; a nuisance.”
READ MORE➦On Mud Month, planting seeds, and watching things grow
Ah, April: AKA Mud Month, when all that white turns to brown.
READ MORE➦Enough with the semantics already.
Now that winter has arrived and put me in my place—which would be in my big blue chair in front of the fire—I have time to contemplate northern life
READ MORE➦Ten years already? We couldn’t have done it without you!
Light the candles and roll out the cake: Northword Magazine is celebrating its 10th anniversary as BC’s top read!
READ MORE➦The sweet, simple life: bikes, tomatoes and putting down roots
If there is one through-line in this issue of Northword it surely reflects the quote above: at its heart, it’s about our search for simplicity, and for that which is necessary and real.
READ MORE➦Ants in your pants
Welcome to Junely, when we at Northword get all al fresco and touristy.
READ MORE➦What Colour is Happiness?
Driving home from work I travel the back road; it’s long and straight with fallow fields fringed with forest on either side.
READ MORE➦False Pretenses
This afternoon, I was pouring hot water for tea when my dog started barking.
READ MORE➦Work to live…or live to work?
There are two types of modern day pioneer that make their way here in north-central BC.
READ MORE➦If you have miles to go before you sleep, you must live in northern BC
Here, we don’t sleep in one room, in one house, in one town. We sleep right across the region.
READ MORE➦Decisions, decisions…
Ah, the shampoo aisle. Some days I can be found here, pacing the row, trying to read the small print without my glasses, contemplating my options.
READ MORE➦Wait for it…
Ah, spring! The season of birth and revelation and renovation. Most of all, spring—around these parts anyway—is the season of......wait for it..... waiting.
READ MORE➦A Warm Start
I sat across from the fireplace, keeping an eye on the fire to see if it was burning hot enough to leave it untended. It was touch-and-go—the flames were showy but were now dying down before a bed of coals could be created. I’d brought the logs in a few hours earlier—was the wood warm enough? I wondered.
READ MORE➦Are you a traveller, or a tourist
What’s the difference, you say? The tourist has an itinerary, a destination, a goal. The traveller plays it by ear.
READ MORE➦There’s something in the water
Living here is exhausting. And that’s a good thing! I find that there is no such thing as a quiet weekend or a take-it-easy week—and it’s not just me! Most of the people I know are so busy this time of year it can be a challenge to pin them down for the next event.
READ MORE➦Sho-be-d-be-do
Goodbye snow, and good riddance! I don’t miss the icy pompoms that glue themselves to the bottom of my jeans when I go for a walk around the yard.
READ MORE➦Granny’s not for sale
It has been said that those who are pushing for approval of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline are so greedy they would sell their own grandmother.
READ MORE➦Winter 2018-19: Slow
Slow repairs, slow pace, slow recovery, and much more.
