This year’s Thorrablot has come and gone. It was a great success. Thorrablots are all about food. They are midwinter feasts, originally, to celebrate the…
Time and tide wait for no one. Neither does the Salt Spring ferry. When you spend a lot of time on the islands off the…
In three days, I’ve hiked three Salt Spring Island trails. The first, Assault on Mt. Erskine, is steep, narrow, the rock jutting…
At Geyser, the famous water fountain has refused to perform even though a king waits expectantly. Finally, reluctantly, the king leaves because he has to…
Over the years my father hired many men to fish for him on Lake Winnipeg. Some years he had as many as thirty-five at his…
I don’t think most people, including me, have had any idea of what it was like to have the Danish king come to Iceland for…
When I was in high school, I was sullen. I’m not sure what I was sullen about. I was the guy in the back of…
Folk tale collections often include stories of wishes gone wrong. Many cultures have stories about the danger of making wishes based on greed or…
This is the second time I’ve read The Little Book of The Icelanders. It was just as funny and as insightful as the first time.…
Without sheep our Icelandic ancestors would have been driven from Iceland or died. Sheep, more than any other animal, fed and clothes our people. From…