When I was twenty years old, I fell in love for the first time. It was the most intense and beautiful thing I had ever experienced. There was only one minor problem: I was struggling with a huge, terrifying, demonic force inside my own self. I’m sure there are many...
The following is a compilation of posts I have written this week on my Facebook page, about a corruption scandal in Namibia that has caused a massive tremor among the Icelandic population. Primarily because it mirrors our situation here at home. Warning: it’s...
Just over a year ago, I received an email from a follower of my work, informing me that there was a book published in Poland that appeared to contain within it large sections of my book The Little Book of the Icelanders in the Old Days. This person knew my book well,...
Almost exactly one year ago I wrote the post below, about the misconduct of Iceland’s minister of justice, in my monthly newsletter. That justice minister, Sigríður Á. Andersen, has repeatedly been at the centre of corruption scandals, but certainly among the...
Do you remember a few months ago when I wrote about how the (corrupt, complacent) old guard of Iceland’s two largest labour unions had been ousted, and a new, radical leadership had taken its place? At the time I also alluded to the fact that we Icelanders could...
