About the Author

The events portrayed in the memoir split my life into two parts, almost equal in duration. Born in Poland, then separated from most of Europe and the world by the Iron Curtain, I had a peaceful childhood in a middle-class family. I enjoyed my schools and teachers and completed my education by reading economics; then, I was a lecturer and researcher, married and had a stepdaughter. In the second part of my life, I worked as a software engineer on many exciting projects in Canada and USA. I had a daughter, later two grandchildren, and retired. My hobbies include travel, photography, and gardening when I cannot travel. I also have a pair of cats, as I had in Vast Plain, suspended, some thirty-five years ago.