Creating a Paper World
My growing interest in Inuit sculptures became the springboard into my life as a writer.
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Inspired in Iceland: Nature, Art and Bloody Sagas
Carved rock sculptures in Husafell by the artist Pàll Guömundsson were scattered in the mountainous paths around his studio. When the opportunity arose to go Iceland with my wife Lona and our older son and his family, I grabbed it. Iceland’s a country I’ve wanted to see for a long time, and [...]
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“Just Write! Anything!”
I was not a bookworm as I grew up. I read relatively little and wrote only one ‘term paper’ in high school. At best I skimmed the assigned readings over the summer vacations in high school. Thus, my freshman course at Harvard requiring that we write an essay every two weeks throughout the semester was [...]