Empty Nest Expat

Great movements often start in coffee shops. Vaclav Havel famously met with his fellow Czech dissidents in the Cafe Slavia across from the N...

Imagine living in a country where your political system did not consider your needs as a woman and mother important enough to provide for. I...

When the fall of the Berlin Wall happened, I remembered being 100% glued to my television set. I was 30 years old at the time. Old enough ...

What's Latin for "they came, they saw, they charmed?" That's what President and Mrs. Obama did when he spoke to the Czech...

No, I did not tell them it should read "Welcome TO Berlin." The Brandenburg Gate In the strange logic peculiar to governments...

Driving through Missouri is a pleasure because the glaciers did not make it down this far from the North to flatten the earth. All the count...

It's very hard to know or remember now, just how forbidden and mysterious everything was behind the Iron Curtain before it fell. Americ...