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This display sits in the lobby of one of my favorite buildings in New York City. 30 Rockefeller Plaza. 30 Rock. Yes. It's true. I find myself once again working for NBC News. | |
| Remember on the front page of the site how I mentioned that I am still processing my experience in Rome? Well, I think it is fair to say -- more accurately -- I am still processing what it means to be back in New York City. When I returned from Italy, I had no job, no prospects, very little, if any, soldi. Money. Green. Bucks. Lira. Oops, I mean Euro. Well, back then at the end of 2001, it was still Lira. Once home, I immediately got work. Back in the news business -- network and local news. After having suffered through being out of my city on September 11th, here I was: producing news for the citizens of New York City. Immersed immediately into Manhattan. And the Bronx, Staten Island, Queens and Brooklyn. And those nether regions referred to as the "tri-state." Well, I'm here to tell you -- I may have felt like an outsider when I lived in Rome. But throw me in the middle of a newsroom that had lived through what I now learned was called 9/11 -- and I really WAS an outsider. No wonder it has taken me so long to start filing dispatches here on Ruling Woman. I thought I could just observe and chronicle the city of New York as I'd done with Roma. Certainly New York is as fascinating, textured and intriguing as Rome. Little did I know that I would have to get to know my own city all over again. Candlewax on the streets, still barely there. Posters of "the missing" now disappearing into the elements. People on a different grieving curve than me. It may take a trip outside to feel like a New Yorker once again. Forse. Perhaps. | ||