Empty Nest Expat

  The entrance to the Belgrad Forest Back in Istanbul, after a week in France, I was excited to see that a Turkish friend was organizi...

 Me with fellow expats Catherine Bayar and Anastasia Ashman This week I attended the Istanbul simulcast of the TEDGlobal conference live ...

The Czechs had a phrase during communism times: "If you're not stealing, you're stealing from your family."  Since the gov...

Some friends of mine in Iowa, the Hamiltons, had told me years ago about how much they had enjoyed Bulgarian food when they had visited. I w...

Arriving at the Central Bus Station I almost felt as if I was at the Denver, Colorado airport with these white-capped "mountain" r...

  My beautiful young couchsurfing hostess Kamilla Somewhere between Prague and Sophia, the look of the people changed.  I don't know w...