Iceland | Iceland
Apr.20.2013
I've just returned from my third trip to Iceland in a year. When this comes up in conversation, I am inevitably and understandably asked why--what brings me there?
It's not business; yet vacation doesn't seem the right word either. The question as to why Iceland would be...
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Feb.04.2013
"You went to Iceland in February? Why on earth would you go there at that time of year?"
My brother would have answered, "I've always wanted to try fresh puffin and whale." My dad would have replied, "It's the cheapest time to go."
I was 45 years old and I'd never seen...
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Dec.16.2012
After Sandy Hook Elementary School, the Denver Post published an editorial.
"Adam Lankford, a criminal justice professor at the University of Alabama,wrotelast summer in The Huffington Post that four of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history had occurred in the past six years. He...
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Dec.09.2010
There are many theories as to why Scandinavian crime writers prosper in the bestseller lists. But I know why it is. Ikea.
I just bought a new set of Ikea shelves for my office. I’ll get into exactly how that has altered the configuration of my workspace, but at this point let me just note that it...
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Jul.05.2010
As the U.S. pauses from work to celebrate freedom, what national liberation do you desire? At the risk of seeming ridiculous, I'd love the public interest to awaken from its self-imposed trance, putting the people's business before self-serving politics.
When a pig flies, you say? Look north, up in...
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May.09.2010
Last year’s Book Lover’s page-a-day calendar wasn’t too exciting, but this year’s seems to have a lot of intriguing titles. I’ve begun to amass not only piles of physical books to be read, but now I have a pile of calendar pages scattered about. Some may never see themselves into my hands.
One...
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May.02.2010
Got to admit, didn't find the Icelandic volcano spewing its guts over the last couple of weeks very upsetting. Of course, if you were one of the thousands forced to get up close and personal with airport terminal linoleum for days on end, I heartily apologize, but encourage you to consider it a...
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Apr.17.2010
Plumes of ash crawl across the sky from Iceland onto the eastern seaboard of this small island. Soon it might even fall on this house and onto the clothes line and even onto the tiny onions that creep with timidity out of the earth and may drown what is already there, what has taken so much...
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Oct.12.2009
Here is a prime example of what happens when money, greed and government mis-management are the sole administrative bodies of a country. The affects can and will be devastating as can be attested to by the small Atlantic Ocean country of Iceland.
The Republic of Iceland is a European island country...
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May.17.2009
David Liss is the author of classics of historical fiction from his Edgar Award-winning debut A Conspiracy of Paper, which was rooted in his academic studies, through the fabulous tale of the Portuguese Inquisition and the Amsterdam commodities exchange, The Coffee Trader, and on into his...
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