Why I started drinking coffee
Back in August of 1991 I was a nineteen year old young man with a sense of adventure in me. I had been working all summer in construction, had been reading a lot of literature and trained in fencing for competition. On August 18th of 1991 I went to Germany with my sister, and […]
When we cleared out the ravens nest.
In the summer of 1988 I stayed with uncle Sturla, at his farm in Iceland called Fossatún (e. Waterfall Fields). The farm is situated just above waterfalls in a popular fishing river, and is a beautiful farmstead with a 1000 year of history. Also his son (my cousin) was my age and he and I […]
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 […]