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…

Homeland Security

On the 11th of September, 2001, with thousands of other New Yorkers, I walked toward home along the Williamsburg Bridge. Amid the fear and confusion, the attempt to reconcile what was, as of that morning,  the unimaginable, we marched; desperate for news, for answers, for information.  Less than 2 miles away, plumes of what was…