by Stowaway Magazine | Feb 15, 2017 | Culture, Life, Winter 2017
My grandpa is Swedish; my grandma, English. Whenever his wife would start reminiscing about the glories of the motherland, my Papa, a lifelong chemist, would always reply, “But you’ll never meet an English inventor. Bunch of druids. The Swedes invent things.” Whether...
by Stowaway Magazine | Dec 26, 2011 | Features
Photo by Andrea Ciambra By Kelsi Walbeck Breathtaking fjords. Majestic mountains. Giant glaciers. In the ninth century, Vikings and other explorers happened upon this peaceful, beautiful island. This idyllic place came to be called Iceland because of the snow-tipped...