Bio

Personal

Take 1:

Married man. Joyce reader. Seasonal biker. Casual photographer. Smashing Pumpkins fan. Birdwatcher and cats admirer. Interested in medieval history, graphic design, social media and internet marketing.

Born, living and presumably buried in Warsaw, Poland.

    

Professional

I’ve been studying for five years to be a historian. Next 10 years I spent doing something completely different.

First, selling clothes for over two years. I’m still a master of folding clothes and puting them in neat piles.

Then I found myself managing a rather big store of one of the mobile network operators. And I was good at that. But I’m still using the mobile I bought five years ago and writing a text message is a torture for me. It doesn’t mean I haven’t learned anything…

Lastly, I came to a place where I supposed to be an administrative-sales support-customer service-logistics-warehouse-accountig employee. And I’ve been for a long time. But apart from that I became a marketing, graphic design and printing specialist which was the work I really enjoyed and I hope to enjoy in future.

What next?

73 responses on “Bio”

  1. Variety is the spice of life. And there is an added benefit. You get to determine which walks of life have the most impact of your presence on this earth. Your ancestors left an impact and now it is your opportunity. Good luck. Wally (Vaju)

  3. Interesting! I’m really good at folding T-shirts! I have a technique I picked up from some Chinese woman in a video on YouTube!

    Who’s Grogan? What’s the story behind the blog-address? :)

    • I’m not as good at folding as Chinese I’m affraid. But I think I’m better than average man :-)

      Mother Grogan is a fictional character talked about (or rather mocked about) in a dialogue in the first chapter of James Joyce’s “Ulysses”. She’s sort of archetype of old Irish woman of lower class and Irish folk wisdom, but of course there are many in-depth interpretations of this character to be found here and there. I don’t think there’s any idea or story behind me choosing her to be the patron of my blog (and not only this blog: mothergrogan is a nickname I use in other web services). The dialogue where she’s mentioned always makes me laugh, and is one of the parts that I remember the best from the novel. Maybe it’s because sometimes I feel that I’m a bit like mother Grogan: I think that my thoughts and ideas are very wise and new when actually they are secondary and of no importance.

      Here you can find the part of “Ulysses” relating to mother Grogan: http://mothergrogan.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/mg.pdf

      • That’s wonderful! I haven’t read it. Started with Finnegan’s Wake but quickly gave up, when I realised it wasn’t for me :)
        I’ll check out the link now ..

        • Started with FW?! Bad idea :-) I’ve read almost all Joyce’s works but gave up FW after 100 or so pages :-(

          I think you’d better start with one of the short stories from “Dubliners”. I’d highly recommend “The Dead”.

  6. Thanks for the follow over on my blog. I love your photos, and glad we’ve bumped in to each other! And now, I’m off to practice folding clothes!

  8. what a great blog :-) smashing pumpkins too ;-) looking forward to following your world

  11. Don’t worry, some of us have a more sordid job history than that. Love those photos, keep it up! And thanks for following me.

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  14. As a thank you for following my blog, I’d like to pass on the Tell Me About Yourself Award. The details can be found at: http://wp.me/p2jXpU-fc I’m looking forward to seeing more from you!

    • That’s a great honour CL, thanks!

      I’m not good at telling about myself but I’ll respond to that soon.

      Thank you once again!

      • No problem, mothergrogan. Participation is entirely optional; and is at the level you choose. Everyone has enough pressure without the blogosphere adding more (in my humble opinion). Take care :)

  15. Hey, thanks for all the likes and for following my blog. You have some great photos here and I look forward to following your posts as well. — Rob

    • Hello Rob!

      I’m really glad you like my photos. I’ve seen lots of great photos on your blog and I’m sure I’ll be visiting it frequently.

      I wish you many good shots!

      ATB

      Paweł

  16. I can really resonate with “Joyce Reader” and “Medieval History” and “casual photographer.” We have some things in common. What made you give up “Medieval History”? – Or have you?

    • Actually I’ve never given up medieval history. It is still one of my fields of interest. Ten years ago I could start the university career, get degree etc. But life demanded something else.

      Good to meet someone with similar passions. I hope it will be a pleasure for you to follow my blog.

      Paweł

  19. Hi there:), just wanted to say thank you for stopping by my blog with your “Likes” and “Following”, I can assure you that it`s very much appreciated and inspiring! I look forward to continue following your blog as well, I have enjoyed what I found here so far, lots of beautiful pics – and good words that follows as well! Have a marvellous day:)

  24. Great blog. Love the pictures of trails that must surely lead to places of wonder… I also like medieval history and have a collection of books about it. Recently re-read The Crusades, Zoe’ Oldenbourg, then got strayed into buying her Argile et Cendre – in French -not easy in the U.S. to buy books in European languages … but I found it and I am curious to see if she writes historcal novels as well as she writes history per se.

    • The crusades are the part of the medieval history I like the most. I must say I don’t know any of Zoe Oldenbourg’s writings, should give them a try. There was a time I was deeply interested in the biography of Richard Coeur de Lion, even wrote an essay about him when at the university. I can recomend to you the books written by French historian Regine Pernoud, most of them about the history of France in XII/XIII century. But maybe you’ve already know them…

      Thanks for visiting this humble blog, I’m glad you like it.

      Paweł

      • Pawel: Hi, Your blog is a proud one! I had read about Pernoud but I never read her work. I’ll keep that name in mind. I have a book about Coeur de Lion as a military leader (only that one facet of his personality) and his mother Alianor, his father the 1st Plantagenet, and brothers. Currently reading Oldenbourg’s Argile et Cendres, and a book titled “1215″ about the making of the Magna Carta under John Lackland, last surviving son of Alianor. He finally became king of England only to be trimmed down by the nobles…! I’ll see if there are any Regine P. books (in French) on Amazon. Vera

  26. in my blog which named ”sıradaki”picture, means in turkish”what next” :)

  28. Hi Mothergrogran!
    Thank you for keep visiting my blog and I also found you site quite interesting with your stories and pictures. Well, I just wanted to let you know that I have nominated you for the Liebster Blog Award. I hope this will be a wonderful news for you. To see more about the award and this nomination, please visit my post at
    http://smartntrendymom.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/liebster-blog-award-the-first-award-for-my-blog/
    Congratulations and all the best to you!

    • Thanks for the awards, they’re always much appreciated. I must say I’m not much into the blogging awards. Just can’t find enough time to pass them on etc. But receiving them is a great thing :-) I’m glad you find my blog worth visiting, please come back for more :-)

      Cheers!

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    • Pleased to meet you wildsherkin. Your blog is really worth following. I hope you’ll not be disappointed with mine :-)

      All The Best!

  35. Great blog you have here. Thanks for the “like”…folding clothes is one of my favorite “chores” to do and my kids love to help me do it… :-)

    And happy new year!
    Warm regards,
    Mary from My Tropical Home

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