Empty Nest Expat

Sena Eken, PhD describing macroeconomic changes to Turkey's economy Today at the Professional American Women in Istanbul (PAWI) lu...

No matter where I go in the world, I swear I could find the most interesting things to do in any given town. Wichita, Kansas was no exceptio...

  The entrance to the Belgrad Forest Back in Istanbul, after a week in France, I was excited to see that a Turkish friend was organizi...

 Me with fellow expats Catherine Bayar and Anastasia Ashman This week I attended the Istanbul simulcast of the TEDGlobal conference live ...

Sweden wowed me when I visited for one week last November.  I was stunned by the general prosperıty of the population, and to be honest, I d...

I moved to Prague in November of 2008. It was the day after the Presidential election so I left full of hope and excitement for my country...

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...

"You Americans are obsessed with Communism!" one of my students said in exasperation. I giggled. I can't even remember what ...

School District Revenue Alert: Koreans are so hungry to learn English and compete personally in their marketplace, which is competing with o...

Reading about European taxes makes me think a lot more about my own. People complain that my community in Illinois is a high-tax environmen...