Empty Nest Expat

Manal Al-Sharif A woman with the simple demand: I need to drive in my daily life.  Before coming to Little Rock, I had ...

A typical Ozark road sign We took a scenic route It wouldn't do to fly back to America without spending more time with my girls th...

The Goddess of Democracy from Tiananmen Square circa 1989 Václav Havel and the Czechs inspired my 'Empty Nest Expat' adventure...

A Force for Good Vaclav Havel Modeled after the American Presidential Libraries, the new Vaclav Havel Library will be a repository for Vacl...

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...

  At the Reduta Jazz Club All of this "Obama in Prague" commotion, took me back to a wonderful memory from "Obama in P...

Recently I saw the Czech movie "Twenty-One Spokespersons of Charter '77." What a great film for showcasing the singular courag...

The 20th anniversary of that bloodless regime change known as the Velvet Revolution occurs this year. Click on my blog post title for memori...

It's an interesting question that Vaclav Havel's latest interview brings up. He says post-communist Czech society is 'worse...

Yikes, I've been on the thing like...a week. I'm already addicted. It's awesome. Mr. Tweet is awesome too. I'm really en...

What is the antidote to cynicism? Action. In this New York Times editorial, Vaclav Havel takes action by demanding that the human rights or...

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

Vaclav Havel was quoted in the Prague Post as saying "what bothers me most [about the government falling] is that it deepens the aliena...

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...

Here at the Empty Nest Expat blog, I occasionally can't resist trying to be useful. The librarian in me, rabidly interested in politics...

Last month I happened to be having dinner with a Czech politico who's political abilities were as apparent as Arnold Schwarzenegger'...

The New York Times featured Vaclav Havel today as their Saturday profile. He has a new play debuting called "Leaving." It sounds ...