America is my home, and the lens through which I view it is rooted in my own personal history. I was not born here.  My Welsh father married my Texan (and Daughter of the American Revolution) mother, who delivered me in London, England.  We returned stateside when I was three, never returning to the United Kingdom.  When I enquired as to why we never visited my birthplace, my father replied, “It’s bloody cold over there.” Dad was a professor of microbiology, and learning about everything was...