Photos courtesy Tom Koppel and Annie Palovcik Tom sailing a trimaran on the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, with a heavily tattooed Maori…
I love books. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t love books. My grandmother taught me to read by sitting beside me on the…
There is no truth about fiction and drama greater than “What happens is less important than to whom it happens.” The task of the writer…
The short story, What The Bear Said, takes place in New Iceland. The settlers have lived there long enough that they have spread out from…
Nancy Marie Brown. Song Of The Vikings. New York: palgrave macmillan, 2012. 239 pages. There are books I read quickly, racing through the sentences, the…
There´s Laufabrauð, Leafbread, like Kladia Robertsdottir´s meticulous leafbread, and Trish Baer´s creative, personalized leaf bread, and then there´s my leaf bread. Decorating a thin…
They’re doing it in Gimli again. Showing movies, some of which are mainstream, but some that are strange and weird and wonderful. The…
When Sir George Mackenzie travels around Iceland, he is accompanied by letters of introduction. He is no young man without means but a powerful, titled,…
The skies threatened rain, grey clouds spread from horizon to horizon, but God loves Icelanders and the rain held off until the moment the ceremonies…
The dead hands of the Icelandic Bishops lay heavily on the lives of people for many generations after the Bishops had died. Their stern, disapproving…