I was both surprised and pleased when my book, PRAGUE: MY LONG JOURNEY HOME, was selected as a finalist for the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Award. Here I am, standing on the Annapolis waterfront, wearing the finalist medal. No, I don’t wear it at any other time!

My e-mail penpal, Karl Okerstrom, sent me a story today. I had read it before. But it is so incredible — yet believable — that it was worth rereading. In case you havenot had the opportunity to read it, here it is: August 1942. Piotrkow, Poland The sky was gloomy that morning as we waited…

On Sunday, June 17, 3:00 – 4:00 pm, my book — PRAGUE: MY LONG JOURNEY HOME — will be available, and I’ll be signing, in Annapolis, Maryland, at the MARYLAND AVENUE & STATE CIRCLE IRISH FESTIVAL Beautiful Maryland Avenue, extending from State Circle to the Main Gate of the Naval Academy, will closed to automobile traffic and…

I have been elated and humbled by the correspondence I have received from readers of PRAGUE around the globe. This week, a note arrived from Michael Botermans, a dedicated teacher in Canada’s Northern Territories. I would like to share it with you: Greetings from Canada’s Arctic! I’ve wanted to send this note to you last week,…

I was pleased and honored to receive the announcement that my book, Prague: My Long Journey Home, was selected as a finalist in the memoirs category for  2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards presented by the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group. Thank you!

In case you missed Tuesday’s interview on Sheilah Kast’s Maryland Morning, broadcast on Baltimore’s NPR station WYPR (FM-88.1), you can catch it and more on the station’s website: www.wypr.org. Besides the interview which was broadcast on air, Sheilah and I discuss Prague: My Long Journey Home further, beyond the time allotted during her show. You…

I’ll be discussing my book, Prague: My Long Journey Home, on Tuesday morning (May 29) at 9 am with Sheilah Kast, host of the Maryland Morning show, on WYPR, FM-88.1. If you can’t catch it live, you can listen to it later on the station’s web site, www.wypr.org. Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast is a wonderful show…

I will be discussing, and signing copies of, my memoir — PRAGUE: MY LONG JOURNEY HOME — on Saturday, May 19, at 3:00 pm, at the Annapolis Bookstore, located at 35 Maryland Avenue. I’d like to invite everyone with an interest in my book, in World War II, in the Holocaust, and in inspirational memoirs…

 On Sunday, I had the pleasure of attending a meeting of the Czech and Slovak Heritage Association in Baltimore. I had the opportunity to sign my book, Prague: My Long Journey Home, for a number of Czech and Slovak emigres and descendants of emigres. Perhaps more than anything, I enjoyed eating Czech food served at…

Everyone knows who the top two picks in tonight’s NFL draft will be: the Colts will take Andrew Luck of Stanford and the Redskins will choose Robert Griffin of Baylor. Yet, consider the following scores: Brandon Weeden 41- Andrew Luck 38: in the Fiesta Bowl, a game which, if the NCAA did not have an SEC bias,…