When I got my first invitation to give a reading, I was terribly flattered. It’s not surprising. After all, I’d laboured in obscurity, if not…
If you were in Gimli, Manitoba, and said that you were going to visit Eyrarbakki, most people would assume you were going to visit…
Bru church The most memorable moments are often spontaneous, unforeseen, unexpected, flashes in time when something happens that will stay with you for a lifetime. Today, that…
This is an old house. By Canadian standards, that is. Not old like in Sweden or Italy. Old enough to have a certain lean to…
When I recently checked into the Delta, the woman checking me in said, “I’ll show you on a map the most direct route to where…
(From my diary. Advice to a recently divorced friend.) Every generation has its own etiquette. The problem was that when I got divorced, I’d…
Will they choose the euro, or the American dollar or, heavenly days, the loonie? Will they pick a currency behind door 1, 2 or 3? Will…
I grew up in the shadow of the H-bomb. When I went to the movies, there was a cartoon, a trailer, and the news. The…
Flight 314 A collection of short fiction My adapting of short fiction to drama led to commissions to write original plays. Here was a new…
The most significant event during my tenure as editor of Logberg-Heimskringla was a letter to the editor castigating me for my bias and narrow-mindedness, surely…