He’s sitting closest to the camera, pocket-handkerchief in place, looking intently at the stage. A few days earlier, a friendly German...

Just back from my regular Monday morning beach walk. Usually I walk and talk with friends, but today - solo. The sea was a mess of white...

I admire anyone who can recycle materials into something useful or artistic. Peter’s father constructed this crusher, after he discovered...

A Hard Man… Someone said to me that Peter Jirgens is one of the ‘hard men.’ I agree. He could’ve been chiselled out of the rock he...

Can you imagine escaping from your home country invaded by Russian communists, travelling to the other side of the world and landing in a...

This is an historic moment - the first post on my blog. It’s about how I came to write about my first book ‘Out of Latvia’. Where did it...