Sledding with my sister
Its 1976 in Iceland, and two small children walk together in the snow with their sleds, down the path along their house and towards the sled slope by the playground. It’s dark outside, but they can hear the laughter of the kids on the slope. They are a 7-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy, looking […]
The Importance of Family Reconciliation
There is nothing more important to me than my family and the harmony of all its members. I have experienced when quarrels, misunderstandings or hurt pride have separated siblings, or parents and children. It is shocking and sad, to say the least. The worst thing is when this kind of disagreement is allowed to go […]
Travelling Back to 1979: Halloween Memories
I am travelling through my memories back to 1979, in the apartment building at Lerchenreinstrase 19, where my family and I lived in the fall. A lot of things happened that fall for me, I got into a lot of fights, learned to speak, read and write in German and I also learned to […]
A Terrifying Night at the Movies: My 1987 Encounter
Many years ago, when I was a 15-year-old teenager, I went to the movies with my close cousin and his friends from the countryside. It was late 1987 and we went to a movie theater and saw a thriller together at 21:00, so the movie was over around 23:00. It was dark outside when we […]
Battle of the children in Walddorf 1980
I was 7 years old and had just moved to the village of “Walddorf” just outside Heidelberg in West Germany. My sister Hekla and I had befriended a couple of kids in the same apartment building, one of who was a fun boy about 12 years old and his little sister. They lived in the […]
New Year’s Eve 1975
A long time ago in 1975, I was a little 3-year-old boy. At the turn of the year 1975/1976, I went out with my dad and brothers to set off fireworks, as is customary in Iceland. When the New Year’s Eve comedy show was over on TV, we would go into the living room. It […]
Hide and seek in 1981
It is West-Germany and the year is 1981. My sister and I are on the second floor of an old house in the middle of the hillside in the village of Kleingemund, close to Heidelberg. We borrowed this house for the summer from the University and there is a really nice office on the ground […]