I wanted to pen some thoughts on the horrific problem the USA is facing in regard to mass shootings. For those that don’t know I was born and raised in Iceland but lived in Seattle WA, USA for most of…
My thoughts on the Ukraine invasion
I expressed an opinion on Twitter the other day that I thought we should be responding to Ukraine’s request for full military assistance by sending NATO forces into Ukraine to expel the Russian invasion force. I got some interesting responses…
The Power of No
Article on how the word “no” is a powerful and positive sentence and rejecting everything you do not like is very good for your overall well being. Also talk a lot about how we tend to react to “no” in a negative manner and how that is very self-centered
Growing up adjacent to toxic masculinity, patriarchy, etc.
Description of my experience growing up cishet male without accepting the patriarchal messaging and control. A mini autobiography if you will.
My negative opinion on make-up and the cosmetics industry
I realize that possible no one wants to know what my opinion is on this topic, being a cis-male heterosexual middle-aged white dude. I still want to write it down. Those that do not want to know my opinion don’t…
Guide on how to be a real man
This blog post is aimed at all the guys out there, from just another guy. Guys, I’ve got some bad news for you all; we’ve been given horrible wrong information and horrible bad advice regarding interacting with women and what…
Death of online privacy due to SESTA and FOSTA
There has been much written and talk about the Facebook data leak at the hands of Cambridge Analytics. What I don’t think folks realize is that has all been rendered pointless through recent legislatu…
Of self confidence, social programing and more
I’ve been thinking a lot about this thing we call self confidence and how there seems to be a big lack of it these days. I believe the root cause is in what I call social programing. Social programing are…
Vanity where does it come from???
I’ve been pondering lately about this thing called vanity that seems to be gripping the nation worse than ever. What is it, where does it come from, why do we care, etc. I get that one wants to look the…
Proposed solution to our broken political system
As I’m writing this the federal government has been shut down for well over a week, it is my understanding that the government shutdown of 2013 is the longest in the history of the US. This has got me thinking…