Like more than five million others, I’m an American abroad. Except for a brief window of post-COVID sanity from 2022 to 2024, for the last ten years, I’ve lived in an emotional space that spans the chasm between gratitude and guilt. I know I’m not alone. I don’t presume to speak for anyone else. Like…
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To My Fellow Americans, From One of You
Never have so many done so little of what was asked.
America is a Gun
No one needs an assault rifle. Or a semi-automatic rifle. Or whatever the semantic difference is that people think is important and is really not because that’s not the point. No one needs an AR-15 to defend themselves. No one needs to open carry a semi-automatic weapon. No one needs one to protect themselves from…
The Forgotten American
If I read one more think piece about what constitutes a ‘real’ American, or what alphabetized or categorized or hypothesized list of attributes define a ‘real’ American, I’m going to scream. If I read one more newspaper article, or book blurb, or journal piece by men and women with glasses and thoughtful looks in their…
Wine and Cheese (Doodles) 