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, ...

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...

Vaclav Havel waves to the crowd in November 1989 CNN has put together a whole group of videos commemorating an "Autumn of Change" ...

The Plastic People of the Universe Today the New York Times celebrates the rock band that started events in motion that would eventually res...

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

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 ...

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

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

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...

St. Clement's Church in Old Town Prague My church, St. Clements , is a happening place full of happening people. I like it. Nobody in ...

Lenin and me - there's something about Communist kitsch that gives me the giggles My friend Robin posing with ideology frozen in a mu...

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

It's very hard to know or remember now, just how forbidden and mysterious everything was behind the Iron Curtain before it fell. Americ...