Jim Freeman

Because I work from home and work together with my husband, my personal life is fully blended with my professional and my artistic life. It's all part of the whole.

If I were born as a British aristocrat, I would jump off the cliffs of Dover. If my husband was born as a British aristocrat, he would have loved it. He would go foxhunting, play polo, discuss politics, restore a few castles, stroll in the gardens, read a lot, sail yachts and smoke cigars after a long long meal. He might have even acquired a taste for five-o-clock tea.

But he was born as an American, loves coffee and walks around in corduroys. But somehow, he managed to do all the above things anyway, during the time he lived in the US. Minus the castles, that is.

After a carreer as a landscape architect, after sailing, horseback riding, fishing, hunting and golfing, he came to Europe to finally do what he always wanted to do - write. He's been very prolific, completed three novels, screenplay, couple of short theater plays, over three hundred poems (see PragueWriter.com), hundreds of political columns (see Opinion-Columns.com).

When we met, we both lived and worked in Prague, we both wrote, we realized we have the same circle of friends. After a rocky start, we became inseparable. We have been toghether, rather literally together - pretty much 24 hours a day, since May 1995 and, some 10 years of that, in rather isolated environment of mountain villages. That's fifteen years now, wow - how did that ever happen?

In any case, it's not going away. Jim is not only a great husband, he's an excellent mentor for myself and many of our young friends. He plays a double role of a cheerleader and a Devil's advocate to all of our crazy ideas. He has the track record and wealth of experiences to back it up, but in many ways, he's younger than we are. Actually, he's just an oversized kid.