| : Welcome to my website and thank you for your interest in my work. Please e-mail me if you don't find what you are looking for. About me A generally content septuagenarian, I have at various times been a bus boy, copyboy, a U.S. Navy sailor, broadcaster, travel clerk, High School teacher, tutor, ESL instructor, protocol chief and an ambassador. I am married and have two daughters. Oh yes, I also write – both in English and Czech -- with some 19 books to my credit (six of them fiction with one children’s book). Several have been bestsellers both here in Canada and in the Czech Republic. Four thick volumes in my cabinet are filled with articles published in everything from Reader’s Digest to the Central European Quarterly. During the two years preceding the Vancouver Olympics in 2010 I was a columnist from the Prague glossy called Xantypa, something of a Czech equivalent of Vanity Fair. Amongst other things I am past president of the Federation of BC Writers. I have also been Writer in Residence at the Vancouver Public Library in 1988, a writing instructor at Banff, taught memoir writing for the Vancouver School Board, lectured at a Moncton summer workshop and accompanied Josef and Zdena Skvorecky, exile publishers, to Prague in 1990 where they received the Order of the White Lion from my erstwhile schoolmate, president Vaclav Havel. |
With Czech President Vaclav Havel receiving my late father's posthumous Masaryk prize for service
to Czechoslavakia during World War II.
to Czechoslavakia during World War II.
With Queen Elizabeth as she arrived in Prague in 1996.
With Pope John Paul II in Moravia in 1996
With Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright in Prague in 1996.
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