Life

Finding our bliss through our stories

by Lane MacIntosh | Feb 1, 2022

A few years ago, I bought a new bicycle because it looked cool. So cool that when I got it home, I decided it was too pretty to use outdoors.

Hiking in the UNB Woodlot

by Guest Post | Dec 20, 2021

Another early winter storm brought high winds, heavy precipitation, (sometimes accompanied by freezing rain), rising temperatures, and even thunder and lightning to central New Brunswick on Saturday, December 12.

The day the Daamens came to Minto

by Lane MacIntosh | Nov 4, 2021

No one recalls what the weather was like on September 21, 1947, the day the train carrying Anthony and Henrica Daamen and their children rolled into the Hardwood Ridge station near the coal mining town of Minto, New Brunswick.

And there she was, gone!

by Lane MacIntosh | Sep 27, 2021

Traveller, Lane MacIntosh’s mountain bike, had gotten him through the pandemic and all the existential angst that came with it. She was his lifeline. But, in a heartbeat, there she was, gone.

When history rhymes

by Lane MacIntosh | Aug 29, 2021

“History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme,” Mark Twain supposedly said.

Ions, eons and a journey through time

by Lane MacIntosh | Mar 14, 2021

Waterfalls, mountains and beaches. When we’re near them, we feel good. At least I do – waterfalls especially. Watching water tumble over rocks and listening to the music it makes on its journey to the sea nourishes the spirit. Like currents of thought in the slipstream of time, history travels with it.