When I saved a teenagers life.
Many years ago in the winter of 1988 in Iceland, I went with a group of students in my school to a winter cabin, away from settlements in Iceland. I was 15 years old and so were my classmates. This was an outdoor activity club of sorts and there were about 8 of us. We […]
When they lit the stream at the creek on fire
In a place called “Skorradalur” valley, there is a beautiful lake and trees grow and many mountain sides in the valley. My greater family on my mothers side had a summer house there since the 1950s, where my maternal grandfather built the summer house himself for the most part. Many generations of my family have […]
My He-man cartoons
Back in the year 1983, we lived in Potomac county, in Maryland state, USA. I went to a school called Bells Mills Elementary School and was in the fifth grade, under Mrs. Green our teacher. She was a firm teacher, with a snappy army type bark, probably around 40 years of age, with short blonde […]
My earliest memory
I have been searching my mind of late, and I believe that I have determined my earliest memory. I remember crawling to my siblings on the red carpet in our old apartment, so this is late 1972 or early in the year 1973.
My time on the school chess team
Back in 1985 I developed an interest for playing chess. My father had taught me chess many years before that, but I did have any ambition as to play seriously in any way until 1985. Our Icelandic language teacher was tasked with training the school chess team and so he did. There were two of […]
My first acting performance
Back in 1982 when I was 10 years old, the school put up a play at school gymnasium. The play is called “Sálin hans Jóns míns” which in English means “The soul of my beloved John”, which is an old Icelandic play. It revolves around an old woman who is about to loose her husband […]
When my father taught me ride a bike
When I was 4 years old in 1976, I got a hand me down bike from my sister. She had got the bike from our older brother, and so forth. The bike was worn, and was dark purple, with a white steer. It had no help cycles on the back, so I had to learn […]