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Ten years ago today…

09.21.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

The number 10 painted on concrete

… I bought the ohick.com domain.

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Categories // Oh, Ick Tags // fictionary, fixed mindset, guitar, iceland, pragmatism, the practice

Happy fifth!

01.09.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

The number 5 painted on a white-painted window.
Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash

Five years ago, I wrote my first post on Oh Ick.

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Categories // Oh, Ick Tags // barbara ehrenreich, bright-sided, fiction, fictionary, iceland, john david irvine, short story

The big five seven

09.14.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Cover of Tori Amos video for Pretty Good Year

Birthdays seem to come faster every year.

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Reflections on my Iceland trip, part 2: Some room for improvement

04.30.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Sunset over the bay

As awesome as my trip to Iceland was—and it was awesome!—I do have a few regrets, things I could have done that would have made this amazing trip even more amazing.

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Reflections on my Iceland trip, part 1: Some good choices

04.23.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Road into the mountains in Iceland

I’m not a great traveler. But Iceland is so consistently beautiful, and its people so consistently kind, that I only needed a few good choices to make the trip amazing.

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Iceland: The last leg of the journey

03.30.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

The winds south of Borgarnes almost made me late for my appointment at the Blue Lagoon.

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Iceland: A taste of the north

03.21.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Road snakes off into the snow.

One nice thing about visiting a small-ish country: it requires a lot less rushing around.

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Iceland: South and back

03.12.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Just as I was getting used to Reykjavík, it was time to head south.

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Iceland: New Year’s in Reykjavík

02.16.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

By the time I got to the fireworks, things were better. But I struggled during those first hours in Reykjavík.

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Iceland: Day minus one

12.31.2017 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Another post in which I test my camera. Focus is fine this time, though content leaves a bit to be desired. Learning!

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Greg in front of a wall sculpture at SFO
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