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• Married 47 years.  Stan is now deceased.
• Taught elementary school and junior high English for 25 years.
• Joined the Peace Corps in 1996 and served in Uzbekistan.
• Took up road biking in ’99 and biked 500 miles in Ireland — all by myself.
• 2005 and ’06 was spent in the Alaskan Bush where I taught the Yupik Eskimos.

I have lived in Princeton, Edinburgh, Duluth, Paris, London and Leicester, England. Was ordained, was a campus minister, assistant minister, arts secretary, and, for 30 years, a University (art) adult educator. I have, with two colleagues, been instrumental in creating, building and running the Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability and the Arts at Leicester University. Persistently, I have been a painter — part of the package in all my jobs — exhibiting but waiting for posthumous fame. I have had one wife, no children, two nationalities and a profound Czech connection via Prague friends since 1964. To have gone to places which fascinate, found fine friends and worked at jobs which suited me gives me a little more optimism than is sensible in the world as it is.