Empty Nest Expat

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

Sometimes reading about the evil of the Holocaust it seems so over-the-top that it's all one can do to take in the enormity of all of th...

When you decide to move to a country and want to learn all about it, one of the best things you can do is read the blogs of expatriates who ...

The Streets of Karlovy Vary in Western Bohemia, Czech Republic.  It's a spa town so popular with Russians there are direct flights. Old...

Slavenka Drakulić continues her look at life after communism in the book "Cafe Europa" her sequel to “How We Survived Communism...

Scratch any American and you'll find someone in love with the mythic narrative of his or her own country.  That's why I could never ...

Deported Czech Jews working as conscripted laborers in Estonia I haven't yet been to Terezin, the concentration camp that is frequently ...

The Czechs had a pretty horrific 20th century. First, it was the Austrian-Hungarian empire, then the Nazis came, and the Soviets. You'...

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...

Driving through Missouri is a pleasure because the glaciers did not make it down this far from the North to flatten the earth. All the count...

One of the delights of knowing Czechs back in 1992, was hearing stories about Czecho love for Americans thanks to Patton's Third Army. ...