Writing
Notes from
the outside
Essays on marketing, building things in hard industries, and what you notice about home once you have left it. Written from Iceland, mostly.
03 essays published · more on the way
POPera — behind the camera
I filmed and edited POPera, a stage production in Reykjavík, and donated the work.
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POPera — behind the camera
I filmed and edited POPera, a stage production in Reykjavík, and donated the work. The page has the project, the view from behind the camera, the credits and the footage.
I Came for a Hot Dog. I Got Geopolitics.
A hot dog line at Bæjarins Beztu Pylsur, a referendum on Iceland’s place in Europe, and a Já pin handed to an American who does not get a vote.
The American Dream for 3,299 krónur
An American in Iceland, a burger on a menu, and Brooks & Dunn on repeat — on being permanently the outsider, and why that turns out to be worth something.
Hjálpaðu mér að tala íslensku
Ninety days in Iceland to use the language I have been learning — and an Icelandic border officer who took me up on the offer to speak Icelandic before I had officially entered the country.