Masset Haida village There are a lot of people coming to the INL conference in Seattle. So many, in fact, that it is sold out.…
Mr. Curtis has come and gone. You’d like him. He’s not a big talker. That’s not surprising for someone who works alone most of the…
I can’t find a suitable winter picture of my grandparent’s house so high summer will have to do. There we are, the lot of us.…
Photo credit for Yrsa and fan, P. Baer It’s not often that when an audience begins to gather for a Richard and Margaret Lecture at the…
The members of the Occupy Movement have a long winter ahead of them. It would be a winter well spent if they used it to…
I stumbled into university because I had a summer job with a group of guys from a higher social class than me. Their fathers were…
When I was a kid, women weren’t allowed into beer parlours. These were male territory. Their purpose was not recreational. It was for drinking. There…
Icelandic Hollywood film producer Sigurj ón Sighvatsson, whose portfolio boasts more than 40 movies and television series, has secured the movie rights to Yrsa Sigurdardóttir´s…
These are the lazy days of summer. These are hammock days, days for lying on the Toronto couch (if you have one) at the…
The Gimli train station of my childhood. First, the Icelandic settlers came by flat boat, towed until a storm caused the captain to cut the line.…