When people emigrate, they bring with them the memory of their homeland. They bring with them religion, values, sets of behaviours. They have experienced life…
Photos by W. D. Valgardson The vikings will be on the hill at Gimli. In their chain mail and metal helmets. They’ll roast meat on…
I love cooking. I’m not talking about having one speciality such as barbecued steak that can be whipped up once a summer. …
We could hear the music as we threaded through the trees, down the twisting, rocky path. Fir trees, moss, ferns crowded the narrow trail. The…
Dr. John Tucker and Sigurn Davidsdóttir Photo by W. D. Valgardson Sigrun Davidsdóttir´s third Beck lecture was a smashing success. Luckily, Trish Baer and John Tucker had…
What Kind of Society Are We? Last weekend, when I was driving to the ferry, I saw one of my old colleagues. We’d been professors…
A troll lived in our cistern. He moved in shortly after my grandfather built the cistern in our basement so my mother would have soft…
They came with a dream. They would leave Iceland and their lives of poverty and privation. They would have land. They would be able to…
I dredged them out of the crawl space. Plastic yellow and red boxes filled with 35mm colour slides, strips of black and white film in…
Emily Campbell, Carol Johannson, Ruth Olafson It was a great evening. Tom and Beverly and the volunteers did a great job of the food. Jodi, as…