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From the museum website
The Odin’s Eye exhibit at the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle’s oh-so-Scandinavian Ballard neighborhood is part of the annual Taste of Iceland by Iceland Naturally event. It was also the event that launched my Reykjavik staycation in Seattle. Read More
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My computer is littered with false starts. Somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 words of fiction, I run out of steam, run out of ideas, fall into a plot hole, and don’t know how to continue. So my stories sit, unfinished and abandoned in a folder on my laptop. Last Friday I made it all the way to 16,000 words before I realized I had no idea where I was going. I closed my laptop in disappointment and that night I went to bed a failure.
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Okay, he didn’t actually break my leg, just messed up my left knee pretty badly.
Okay, he didn’t personally mess up my knee.
But it is an absolute fact that I didn’t limp before the Amon Amarth concert last week, and I could barely hobble after it. Read More
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Source TOI Image via The Hindu
Before there were blogs, I spent a quarter studying sustainable development in southern India. I maintained an email distribution list of friends who wanted updates on my travels. Many nights involved entertainments of the herbal or alcoholic kind; there were roof-top full-moon parties and midnight swims in the ocean (the floating garbage was harder to see in the moonlight); some evenings were spent on planting plans and composting toilet design. But occasionally, I sat down at a computer and wrote about my adventures. This is one of those stories. Read More
