Empty Nest Expat

After my daughters and I spent a few days in Arkansas, my children and I parted. It was incredibly satisfying for me to know they were both ...

I'm glad to see this guy is still going strong in Prague's Old Town Square. He produces endless smiles, joy, and singing in those pa...

"Can you tell me," asked my native-Czech student shyly near the end of a lesson one day, "anything you see here that is bette...

I suppose expats become old hands at arriving in a country and figuring it all out. The first time sure isn't like that. It's a bi...

In TEFL class one day we were discussing using obituaries as a way of sharing real texts with our students. My friends in class who weren...

This week I got the bad news that the Czech government denied my visa. I shouldn't have been surprised. They've denied the visas of ...

I had a friend who was a real estate broker. He said that when people sell their home they enter a period of "temporary insanity....

A vibrant young TEFL student has just arrived in Prague from the great state of Minnesota. I had initially hoped to be there to greet her. ...

The waffles are cooking! In early Spring, my friends Jana and David invited our TEFL class out to see their home in a village outside of P...

My dream of living in the Czech Republic came true. It just didn't last. As of Friday, I will no longer have legal status to remain in ...

This week in the Prague Post there is an article about how the recession is affecting language learning. Cost-saving cuts to employee benef...

Right after I finished my TEFL certificate in December, I realized I hadn't seen anything in Smichov, the neighborhood where my English ...

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