When my son was in high school, he came home one afternoon all excited. He said there
Love and Alzheimers
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jogging
When I
The New Democracy
They haven
Meeting People
Today is a real West Coast day in Victoria. Drizzle collects on my glasses in beads that aren
The Meaning of Home
Over the last decade or so, a lot of people have become confused about the difference between a home and an investment. They sit at dinner parties and talk about how much their house has gone up in value since they bought it. They talk about how it
Dare to look
When I recently checked into the Delta, the woman checking me in said,
Good Men
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 commercial fish camp.
Some of these men were married, dependable but many of them were single or temporarily
Thanksgiving blessings
No destination is as important to North Americans of Icelandic descent as that of the farm on which their ancestors lived. In article after article, people write about the rush of emotion that occurred when they stood on that hallowed ground. They can, with no difficulty, see their grandparents or great-grandparents making hay, bringing in the sheep or cows. The sound of the waves on the shore is the same sound their ancestors heard. Many people refer to this land as
Thanksgiving: small mercies
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 water during the winter. The troll was short, heavy set, bandy legged, deep set eyes, a permanent scowl and, if he could grab little boys leaning over the edge of the cistern, he
Icelandic Bibles
I used to find boxes of Icelandic books and magazines on my doorstep. When it happened, I
