November by the Numbers

December 3, 2014
It’s that time again, folks – time for blog statistics! Read on for links to the most popular posts of the month and a list...

I Can’t Commit

December 1, 2014
At the first annual Iceland Writers Retreat, I got to take two workshops from Pulitzer prize-winning writer Geraldine Brooks. For each workshop, she asked us...

Kinkaku-ji Gardens

November 30, 2014
  When we went to Japan in 2010, we gave our then 5-year-old daughter a camera. She took this picture of the gardens at the...

Help! I Have a Samaris Question

November 28, 2014
Among many cute Icelandic things Icelandair does, like naming each plane in their fleet after an Icelandic volcano, is playing Icelandic music in the cabin...