Uno von Troil says “Next to fishing, the principal support of the Icelanders is the breeding of cattle. “Their beeves are not large, but very fat…
The ornamental cherry trees are a rich pink. Underneath, there are swaths of white snow drops. The sky is blue and the sun not yet…
We had a disagreement during supper. Joseph had misjudged me. He said if I’d write a letter nominating Gorbachev for the Nobel prize for Peace,…
Bayard Taylor was a famous American travel writer and lecturer. He was in Egypt when he received notice from his employer that he should immediately…
They were always there. They were there before I was born. They were there after I was born. They were part of my world as…
The crazies are out there. They’re not who you usually think of. They’re not the guy talking to himself as he walks down the street.…
There is a time when the year turns. The winter has grown old. The snow has piled high, layer upon layer, its strata revealing blizzards…
In 1872 when Richard Burton visits Iceland, he says “Their hay was not housed but heaped in stacks two yards square, upon raised mounds, at…
T he first time he accused me of stealing from him, he was lying on his bed reading The Northern Miner. “You stole my…
Life is filled with disappointments, near misses and, sometimes, lucky breaks. The short story, “Bloodflowers”, was like that. I worked on it while in graduate…