Empty Nest Expat

My City of Joy movie posse, Ladies from Global Minds and Istanbook book clubs here in Istanbul What a powerful evening last night...

On a ferry between two continents  is a great place to read In the last two years, one of the most fun things I have done is get invol...

 My Turkish Breakfast If someone were to ask me what I did this last weekend, I could only reply "have breakfast." Besides the ...

"American Gothic" by Iowa artist Grant Wood   If you live away from where you grew up, have you ever received an invitation...

Thanks to Miss Footloose (aka Karen van der Zee) I've been invited to participate in the My 7 Links project organized by Tripbase, the...

Freezing yet Cheerful I'm in Stockholm! A scientist friend told me once that a Nobel Prize in Sciences was a dated concept.  He said m...

  Stockholm City Hall photo by Yanlin Li   I can't think of anything in the world more prestigious than a Nobel Prize, can you? One of t...

Do you remember when Ronald Reagan first declared the totalitarian Soviet Union an "evil empire?" Many citizens in the Soviet Unio...

2010 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo (right)  and his wife Liu Xia (left) Last week about this time I was watching the live coverage o...

I am sure that 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo of China is a brave and amazing person who puts mere mortals to shame. However, it m...

Here's an NGO (non-governmental organization) you should know about.  It's called Transparency International. I never heard of it u...

One year ago today, my President was in Prague, giving a speech calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons.  That speech contribute...

"Wow." I totally understand Robert Gibbs initial reaction to the news that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. I am proud...