Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer: Those Guy Never Skated on No River Ice – Just About Goners in the Icy Water near Bakka Published in Icelandic Connection Vol 71 #2 Feature image: The Icelandic River ice melting in spring – Photo Courtesy Kim...
When Knowledge Came with a Knock
Encyclopedias, a cultural icon of the 20th century, were in almost every home. With the post-millennial generation, they silently slipped into obscurity and the dustbin of history. Encyclopedias touched our lives in many ways, whether it was to...
Mina-Skan: When Friendships and Work Began with a Fish Box
The Life and Times of Leifi Hallgrimson and Walter Nanowin Published in Icelandic Connection Vol 70 #4 Scene 1 – Big Black River Station, June 1936 He awoke to a rattling sound. “What the hell is that?” he thought, opening his eyes. He looked...
The Heartbeat of Reconciliation: “Your Dad and Auntie were such good friends”
My dad, Stefan Sigurdson, passed away in 2012. Our close collaboration in the years prior to his death was invaluable to me in writing Vikings On a Prairie Ocean, published in 2014. It enabled me to ground the book confident in its detail and...
Where Have All The Whitefish Gone… A Long Time Passing
This article was first published in Logberg Heimskringla. Billy Valgardson, my longtime friend, once a teacher and often a mentor, has a gift for pressing hot buttons in my emotional library. Recently, on Facebook, he managed to do so again with...
The Power of Human Connection
As I was writing Vikings on a Prairie Ocean, several pieces that I had written as fictionalized accounts based on historical facts did not find their way into the final manuscript and I now publish them on this web site as a mini-series sequel...
“I’ll just go back fishing in Hecla”
As I was writing Vikings on a Prairie Ocean, several pieces that I had written as fictionalized accounts based on historical facts did not find their way into the final manuscript and I now publish them on this web site as a mini-series sequel...
Thank God for the Fish
As I was writing Vikings on a Prairie Ocean, several pieces that I had written as fictionalized accounts based on historical facts did not find their way into the final manuscript and I now publish them on this web site as a mini-series sequel. …...