I would divide my life into three distinct chapters, the third one starting just today. The first lasted until I was 23 and made the decision to move to Iceland. During that period of my life, I was destined to become a professor. I spent my days with all the same friends doing all the […]

There’s someone connected to my social circle who is young and unendingly passionate about being someone — being someone in the sense of wealth and grandeur. There’s nothing wrong with what he’s doing or his views, rather it got me thinking. Just now, my wonderful host from the small town came to visit me in […]

It was confirmed today that my boss cheated on my friend with another coworker. They were together for six years. I don’t feel comfortable with that — with him. My company removed the HR manager. They made my boss also the entire HR department, as in, he does literally everything. Who can I tell that […]

Oftentimes, I’ll write in my journal about thoughts or feelings that I am aware will change in a very short amount of time. I write them down — express them in full — then acknowledge the very fact that they will change soon enough. Today is one of those days, at least I certainly hope […]

In yet another twist of events, I am left alone in this remote nowhere. Time simply passes: each day, I have no idea how long I’ve actually been here. Of course, the calendar tells me it has been eight days. Have I accomplished anything I wanted to in this time? No. Not really. But that […]

Today is day five in the remote barrens of Iceland. I’ve never been somewhere as peaceful as this. On my first day, our hosts took me around the town, showing me everything and talking. We met the local artists, spoke a lot of Icelandic, and I took a lot of pictures. The second day was […]

I’ve been trying and trying to write this post for the past few weeks, but every time I begin, something changes. Now, my mom is visiting, and I’m trying to prepare myself for my trip to the countryside early tomorrow morning. I never finished my post. I’ve been trying every chance I get, but it […]

As the words, “You don’t have a job,” float through my mind, I think about this world that I’m in: both the one I have built for myself and the one we all live in at large. Someone close said those words to me, I don’t think with the intention of being hurtful, but they […]

The ebb and flow of life is as inevitable as the tide itself. Nothing is forever. Such is what makes life exactly that: the opposite of death. My friends have all gone their ways once again. One by one, in a rather short span of time, they have moved on to the new and the […]

There is a group that holds monthly poetry readings. Readers are allowed to participate every other month, and I’ve been reading there thus every two months since last November. My artist project hosts similar open mic events biweekly at a bookstore. We announced our next event today at this other event which is always enjoyable […]

These past few days, I’ve been inspired to venture back into photography. It began when my friend asked me to do a photoshoot for her which then became two — one in December, one in January. I was inspired enough by actually creating something interesting that I went and spent a little too much money […]

I’ve been on an adventure. This year has already been something extraordinary. It began with my “second” ever romantic situation (with the same person, going exactly the same way) along with the fulfillment of my big art-community project. I bought an apartment. I made new friends, got involved with more groups. And I have simply […]

One year ago, I was unemployed. I had only moved into my first rental apartment the previous January. Before that, I was also homeless. My legal address was “undefined” up to then. Now, I’m sitting in my own apartment — that I own — thinking about an event I am hosting tomorrow: the launch of […]

There is much more to my life than what I’m capable of expressing in a blog post. Obviously, there are many little things that comprise my days. And similarly, people, too. I usually only write about people when our interactions are either positive, or I don’t expect to interact with them (meaningfully) ever again. Sometimes, […]

In the past few weeks, my life turned into a firestorm. Changes at my workplace are ruining everything. My projects are moving along in unexpected ways. I decided to look at apartments for the sake of it one day, and I found a miracle of a listing which I am now buying. And my personal […]

I had a rough week. A rough two weeks. I called in sick to work today. I’m going to call in sick tomorrow, too. A few hours ago, I began writing a very different blog post to that effect — about how I was feeling and my thoughts on such things. However, I met with […]

The only certainty in life is the actions we will take. We can say nothing of their outcome. But we can take action. We have control over that. For example, my major goal for this new year is to become fluent in Icelandic. That is a goal, and it will not happen unless I do […]

Home can mean anything. To me, it’s the place I go back to. Not the building. Not the room. The place. In this case, not Iceland, but Reykjavík. Downtown Reykjavík. This is my home. This is where I do poetry readings. This is where I go to concerts. This is where I run my writing […]

Perhaps my writing ecosystem is likened to that of fungus: let it all be left untended, lost, forgotten. Let it rot and decay, and my newest creations shall grow from the sludge like a fungus. It may not sound “beautiful,” but that is how it has been. I’ve been without internet for nearly two weeks. […]

At long last, I have lived in Iceland for one year, consecutively. On November 16, 2023, I landed in Iceland, moved into my Airbnb, and first truly called this country home. Since then, I’ve gone on a wild adventure as I have previously described. In the last two weeks alone, I’ve been to an evening […]