INTRODUCTION
Memoirs of a Trade Facilitator is a nostalgic review of Thomas's cross border trade facilitation expediencies. It is a luminary journey sprinkled with history, journalistic thoughts, people, events, and friends that contributed legends one believes to be historical. He later published these stories.
A well-known and interesting comment with a twist was passed along to me during one of my speaking engagements!
He who knows the past -- knows the present. He who knows the present -- knows the future -- only under new management.
Those that have read my "Memoirs" say that it is a travelogue of places and events in the an ever evolving Pacific Rim.
https://www.amazon.com/Memoirs-Trade-Facilitator-World-Oyster/dp/1638741328
INTRODUCTION
Princess Hsi Ling Shih was highly skilled in the arts, history, strategy, and tactics of warfare despite being only eighteen. However, her stepmother also bore an heir and jealousy festered into hate and assassination towards Hsi Ling Shih.
Somehow, the princess was able to find a hollowed-out log boat to escape. All alone she set sail with her pet cricket and her royal seal tied in a pocket to her kimono. All alone, she drifted at sea for days as streams of rain swelled up in the sky. Close to starvation gave Hsi Ling Shih a new perspective about life.
Waves continued to hammer into the boat that then beached her on an island. Wakegorō, a fisherman, launched his boat during the storms lull to collect his lobster pots and fish traps and found the princess.
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INTRODUCTION
Now in Ayutthaya, Wake-hime sat on a teak bench overlooking the river. Wake-hime and Tome were relaxing and sipping tea at their favorite pharmacy. Oddly enough it was a reconverted Opium Den.
The scent of jasmine drifted from a nearby stall.
She did not flinch. But her hand slowly moved to the hilt hidden beneath her robes. Tome gave a puzzled glance. “Some ghosts never stayed buried.” She said to Tome.
She closed her eyes and inhaled the scent of jasmine again, because it always brought her back to the Forbidden City Court and her mother. The joy and happiness were alive.
But the memories of her step-mother always overpowered memories of her mother. She said to Tome. Wake-hime, told Tome she could still feel the cold silence of her stepmother’s presence.
She said I was just thirteen when the Empress Dowager entered my life. As time passed it was said that my mother had died under “mysterious circumstances.” Poisoned, the maids whispered—though no one dared speak it aloud.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-tea-house-conspiracy-thomas-p-kaczur/1149097784
A Writer for All Seasons
Mr. Kaczur was the founder of CN-Eximus, Inc. A deal-driven cross-border equity initiatives firm for job creation within the U.S. and the Pacific Rim. In so doing he served as one of twelve Department of Commerce advisers to the US-China Housing Strategy Roundtable, the US–China Building Council, and the US-China Housing Initiative.
"Memoirs of a Trade Facilitator the World was my Oyster” A recording of his exploits and travels. Years later he published and decided to memorialize the stories told to him:
- “The Rogue Princess and the Onna Musha."
- “The Tea House Conspiracy.”
- "Return to Siam" projected release date June 2026
Pending Copyright Anticipating Release June 2026 Final Trilogy