My father
My father was a great man, a good man, a smart man, an elegant man, a good husband and father. He was a devoted son, with the brightest mind of his day, was excellent at school, won awards in science and had a outstanding reputation amongst other men. He was a famous man in Iceland […]
My sister
I have a sister. She is three years older than me. All my youth she was with me and no memories of mine are without her. She was a part of my life and loved her. I love her still. She is no more. She died of brain cancer 12 years ago. I love her still.
On going to school in foreign countries as a boy
We all go to school as children. When we start school or where we go to school is different between people. Some children like school and some children dread school, but most are somewhere in between. School can be good at teaching things, while other school may have a bad teaching environment, all depending on […]
The outdoor games of my childhood
When I was growing up in Iceland in the middle of the 1970s, us kids were always outside doing something. We were generation X of course and that is what you did back then. Also at that time in Iceland, there were no cartoons on TV on weekend mornings like in the US and Canada. […]
Why did I choose to become a lawyer
What should you do with your life? How do you spend your days? What kind of work will you do over your lifetime? These are some of the most important questions in any persons life. Many people in the world have no choice as to the work they do, and they work on their family’s […]
On being an introvert personality
I have often been thought to be shy, and it did very much seem to be the case, when I was younger. For the longest time I even thought that I was shy. It turns out that this is not entirely true, my personality is not that simple. After I became an adult and went […]
When my friend died in a plane crash at 20
When I was 20 years old my good friend Siggi from school died in a plane crash. He was flying the plane himself. I first met him when we were 16 years old starting a new school. Siggi and his friend Andri were buddies from another part of town, and they started at the same […]