Have I Told You This Before? Six Signature Stories Introduction Quarantine Cuts, Pandemic Looks Dairy Queen Daze Wings: The Lesson of Daedalus It Didn’t Seem Funny at the Time The Library Banquet: No Food on the Table Fed Up in Bandung

by Larry Danielson It wasn’t a likely job for me.  As a kid, I didn’t even like ice cream. But when I first immigrated to Ontario, Canada in 1969, it was the only job I could get.  Unemployment in that region was high and I’d already been turned down in 29-30 interviews.  Most of them…

by Larry Danielson A young writer answered his telephone and heard a voice with an over-the-top Swedish accent. “I’m calling from Sweden.  On behalf of the Stockholm committee, I want to say you have been awarded the Nobel Prize…for Literature.” ‘Yeah, sure, you betcha. And I suppose this is Old King Olaf. Who is this…

by Larry Danielson So there I was, finally looking at the real picture.   I’d flown some 12 hours–from Winnipeg to Toronto to Frankfurt to Brussels—and now I was in the Musée des Beaux-Arts—looking at a picture of flight….failed flight. This was “The Fall of Icarus,” done by the famous 15th century Flemish painter Peter…

by Larry Danielson My sister-in-law Betty recounted during a recent phone conversation how she had met a close acquaintance and barely recognized her. The woman always appeared very prim and proper, her every hair in place and always the customary length. Now, however, the impeccable coiffure had vanished, its place taken by a look much…

by Larry Danielson The morning I arrived in Bandung to begin my study of the Indonesian language, I knew I had found a tropical paradise. Situated in the highlands of West Java, this scenic city was surrounded by towering volcanoes. The people were friendly. The stalls in the marketplace were heaped with fruits and vegetables.…

by Larry Danielson The editors of the 1966 Lark—the Hesston College yearbook—laboured hard to describe the movers and shakers of that school year. Among the many pictures you will find Mike Lambert, president of STUCO; Glen Smucker, president of YPCA; and Janet Stone and Kenneth Yoder, respective editors of the Journal and the Lark. You…

Six Signature Stories by Larry Danielson Introduction “You’ve told that one before, haven’t you?” Indeed, I had.  I had just finished a practiced recounting of one of those proverbial stories that one “dines out on.” I cannot recall whether the occasion really was a meal together, but I still can picture the sly grin of…