After the fiscal cliff debate, I think most people would agree that we need to hit reset on the national dialogue about our economy. With the hope for a more constructive dialogue, I stood on Wall Street in front of the New York Stock Exchange and stated what I thought were falsehoods hurting

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I’d like to invite everyone to join me on Coffee Party Radio this Sunday. I will be hosting this 2-hour show debating gun control. The Gun Debate – Special 2-hr radio show hosted by Annabel Park on Sunday, 1/13, 3:30pm – 5:30pm ET Click HERE to go to the radio page to read

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I think I’m living a version of the American dream. I grew up poor on a small farm in Florida. My parents divorced when I was 15. At 18, I became a teenage mother (and a single one soon after) who did not graduate from high school. 12 years later, I have earned an MA, […]

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First of all, I have spent twenty-seven of the past thirty years living and working abroad — Thailand, the Philippines, Japan and Oman.  I was back in the States from October 1998 to August 2001.  Consequently, I can’t offer any real stories about the state of the nation today.

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This video documents a small portion of the protests on Dec 28 2012 at the National Gun Show held at the Chantilly, VA Expo Center. The main protest was hosted by CODEPINK, Veterans for Peace and MoveOn. The single participant in the simultaneous counter-protest was an armed person calling

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To me, America is home, the New World, from North (Canada) to South (Argentina/Chile/Galapagos) – we are all Americans. As the United States, well, it’s my un/familiar homeland. My ancestral lineage predates the American Colonial Era, and I’m sure all of my ancestors would

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When I was asked to write about my life in America, I got excited. I thought I had so much to say and talk about, surely, this was a piece of cake. Well, it wasn’t. Yet, here I am trying to share my story. I want to start with a little background about me. I […]

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I grew up in Central Missouri in the 1960s and 1970s. People drove around our town with guns mounted in the back of their pickups — mostly twenty-gauge shotguns and .22s. I had friends who hunted regularly. Duck season was big in our neck of the woods. So was driving around with a couple

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Cross-posted on Coffee Party USA. At one point in the conversation, anarchist ex-Marine Adam Kokesh implied to Annabel Park that he was carrying a gun. Her response: a laugh. Part 1 (9 min) Yesterday Annabel Park tweeted out her new motto, “Be Civil But Fearless.”

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Dear Friends, I have been reflecting a good deal on this past year and why my new project Story of America means so much to me.  It was a difficult year for many of us because, regardless of how you feel about the outcome of the 2012 election, the debates that we witnessed this year […]

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