A Million Women Cried Last Night–This is Why

When I was 8, I wanted to be the first female pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. Not because I loved the game, but because they told me it was possible. When I was 10, my fifth grade teacher told me use my brain, to push harder, to go higher. I never doubted her, because they told me it…

A Tale of Two Flags

It’s not always easy being an American outside those nifty-fifty United States. Admittedly, it’s not always easy being an American in the confines between sea to shining sea either. Every now and again however, there is a week like this week, a week when as an American broad abroad I can hold my head up…