This is a difficult time for America. Strife stalks the land. There is division even at the highest levels of government. Yet, when I think…
I was born the year the war started. My mother told me once that she’d just come out of the hospital with me when the…
Bruce Batchelor of Agio studios gave a talk last night to the local chapter of PWAC (Professional Writers of Canada). Agio has just completed its…
Ruins of Nevytsky Castle The hills were gently rolling. There were patches of snow in the woods. In the open, the snow had…
There is one overriding reason, purpose for coming to church on Sundays, Pastor Skonnord, the new minister at the Gimli Lutheran church said this summer,…
(from my diary) There’s This Old House on TV and then there’s this old house. Built in 1929 by an English Architect by the name…
Moscow station. Moscow station, I kept thinking It wasn’t like anything I’d ever seen before. It was beyond anything I’d ever imagined. A maelstrom of…
1. In “Sigga’s Prayer”, Sigga is a hired girl working on a farm. Her pay might be board and room, 2-4 rigs (the English…
Something I’ve always appreciated about people of Icelandic background’s is their ability to laugh at themselves. Sharp witted poetry that deflates egos and reveals less…
(From my diary) I’ve owned two houses. One was built in 1914 by a ship’s carpenter. It seemed a very ordinary house from…