Iceland’s volcano timelapse

Iceland’s volcano timelapse

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river...

The ethical blind spot

Here in Iceland we have a pretty nifty word: siðblinda. The literal translation of siðblinda is “ethical blindness”. Basically it is used to describe people who in English I would classify as either psychopaths or narcissists. The English language...

Us vs. Them

One of the worst things I do is when I start comparing myself to other people. I’m sure we’ve all been there. We look at someone else and see only what they have, and we lack. We become envious. We feel crappy about ourselves, because in the comparison, we...

All the notebooks

In Doris Lessing’s excellent novel The Golden Notebook, the main character, Anna, has four different notebooks in which she writes about the different aspects of her life. She struggles with this, and in the end somehow manages to combine the four different...

Building a book, part II

Well hello! It’s been a little longer than I had planned, mostly because you would not believe how many endless little details need your attention when you’re publishing your own book. Meaning that – yes – my book is now out!! Also, I now have...