Empty Nest Expat

Yesterday I read a children's picture book that took me right back to the nine months I spent in Prague, Czech Republic. Peter Sis, ...

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...

The bravery of Czechs in their Velvet Revolution and Ukrainians in their Orange Revolution has been referred to again and again in news cove...

An iconic symbol of the Czech Republic - the National Museum on Wenceslas Square St. Wenceslas stands guard out front of the National Museum...

People read George Orwell's "1984" to imagine the kind of inhuman state where individuals don't matter and the state's...

This is the 200th post on my blog! Since what I like to blog about is cross-cultural issues between America and the Czech Republic, it seem...

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

It's David Cerny Appreciation Week here at the Empty Nest Expat Blog. David Cerny is a delightfully provocative artist native to the Cz...

Today the New York Times ran an opinion piece on the legacy of the Prague Spring. The author, Jiri Pehe, argues that the celebration of the...