I was born in the former Jugoslavia, but my family emigrated to Canada when I was a year old. I majored in Classics at the University of Toronto, with minors in French literature and English. Following two failed attempts to be admitted to teachers’ college, I relocated to the Czech Republic to teach English. I ended up making friends and staying there. I tried twice to return to Canada and re-integrate there, but having spent too much of my adult life abroad made this impossible. I now permanently live in the Czech Republic and have obtained Czech citizenship.
My interests include nature, history, bagpipes and Celtic culture, and social justice, in particular children’s and youth rights.
Some of my favorite tropes include Canada Does Not Exist, Deliberately Bad Example, Due to the Dead, Getting Crap Past the Radar, Values Dissonance, and Where the Hell Is Springfield?. I’m also quite interested in tropes related to parents and children, and tropes related to hair.
I have created and launched the following tropes:
- Dame with a Case
- Facial Scruff
- Improbable Hairstyle Sequence
- Hollywood Cop Uniform
- Honor Thy Parent
- Makeover Fail
- Parental Blamelessness
- Real Men Have Short Hair
- Sexily Modest
- Singing Mountie
I have created the following work pages:
- The Affected Young Ladies
- Western Animation/Colargol
- Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice?
- Eugénie Grandet
- Le Grand Meaulnes
- The Grandmother
- Hans the Hedgehog
- The History of the Fairchild Family
- Little 'Tinker
- Malheurs de Sophie
- Paul's Case
- The Red Shoes
- Serendipity Books
- The Year Santa Went Modern
I have created the following creator page:
I have made significant contributions to the following pages:
