There was a lot of excitement at Halloween. It started with our mother asking us what sort of costume we wanted and then she improvised…
When you travel and spend time with the local people where you visit, you’ll always be subjected to various tests. A lot of the time…
In 1851, according to Statistics Canada, there were 2,436,297 people in Canada. Of those, only 318,079 lived in an urban environment. 2,118,218 people lived in…
There was wind. There was threatening rain. There was a storm on the ocean, a storm strong enough to keep our guest speaker from Seattle,…
Learning to read, write and speak a language other than your own, unless you are a natural polyglot, is hard work. Learning all…
I hope readers of this blog got a laugh out of the cartoons I posted. I hope they got a bigger laugh at…
Atli and Þruður receiving a gift of appreciation at the Arborg Thorrablot. There is a measuring cup of water on the table. I’m a pessimist…
There are goodbyes that are hard. These are the kind where it is likely that you will never see someone again. Such goodbyes were frequent…
Embracing our heritage is hard work. It requires effort on our part. Putting on a plastic Viking helmet, drinking an Icelandic beer and gobbling up…
As an identifiable community in the Canadian mosaic, we face what every other community faces, assimilation, integration and a growing loss of our immigrant culture.…