Life Sentences

Personal Writing

Have I Told You This Before? Six Signature Stories Introduction Quarantine Cuts, Pandemic Looks Dairy Queen Daze Wings: The Lesson …

Dairy Queen Daze

by Larry Danielson It wasn’t a likely job for me. As a kid, I didn’t even like ice cream. But …

It Didn’t Seem Funny at the Time

by Larry Danielson A young writer answered his telephone and heard a voice with an over-the-top Swedish accent. “I’m calling …

“Wings, or The Lesson of Daedalus”

by Larry Danielson So there I was, finally looking at the real picture. I’d flown some 12 hours–from Winnipeg to …

Quarantine Cuts, Pandemic Looks

by Larry Danielson My sister-in-law Betty recounted during a recent phone conversation how she had met a close acquaintance and …

Fed Up in Bandung

by Larry Danielson The morning I arrived in Bandung to begin my study of the Indonesian language, I knew I …