Empty Nest Expat

Freezing yet Cheerful I'm in Stockholm! A scientist friend told me once that a Nobel Prize in Sciences was a dated concept.  He said m...

  Stockholm City Hall photo by Yanlin Li   I can't think of anything in the world more prestigious than a Nobel Prize, can you? One of t...

Can you see the people near the bottom of the magnificent Vasa Warship? There were so many things that impressed me about Sweden but ...

  Starting a fun day of sightseeing at a cold beautiful overlook of Stockholm  I recently had the opportunity to visit Sweden.  I went in ...

I was recently enjoying my friend Sher's blog where she chronicled her top five posts of the year .  It made me wonder what my top five...

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...