Author Archives: Savanna
Dear Ireland,
I can’t believe this!!!! It’s mind-blowing that this trip is coming to an end. I loved it here so much. I have been told before that I am high maintenance (which may or may not be true) so leaving everything familiar at home and flying 3,000 miles away was a pretty big risk for me. […]
Just call me Chris Warman
FEAR. Nervous. Anxious. Sweaty. Relieved. Exhausted. Thrilled. Exhilarated. Hyper. Starving. Gratitude. These were the main emotions I felt today. In approximately that order. Now I’m not saying I can outdo the mushball in our group but I am going to give it a try. Thank you so much Terri, Joan and Kimberly for not falling […]
Hotties, history and ducks
Today was a less productive day for me. I only went to one daytime activity, which was the lunchtime reading with Gavin Corbett who was fabulousssssss (and very attractive.) His latest book is titled “This is the Way.” Here is the excerpt from the back cover: “Anthony Sonaghan is hiding out in an old tenement […]
I’m basically just making stuff up
The Hewitt was awesome! I came into it with a very open mind. I had no idea how many people were going to be there, how the speeches were going to go, and especially what was going to be required of me at the historical fiction workshop. When I told one of my good friends […]
American food and farm transportation
I miss American food. And salt. And pizza. Armagh is pretty cool, but the fact that no food establishments stay open later than 8p.m. is very inconvenient. Thinking about it I am sure it’s a good thing people can’t access fast food so late at night, good for your overall health and what not. But […]
Acting like a lady
For me, my audience is largely those back home. To give them some insight into what I’m doing in Armagh and to inspire future students to want to study here. The majority of the things I learned while in here in Armagh I had no idea of back home, the troubles, the murals and the […]
Some people are too stupid to work iPhones
I don’t think all people with iPhones are competent enough to report a story. Simple as that. I think they can sometimes contribute, but reporting is a skill that must be learned, presenting information in an unbiased, clear way is not something that you can just decide to type up on a note in your […]
We hold these truths to be self evident…blah blah blah
To me, fact is something that can be proven. But this logic applies strictly to my writing as a journalist. Unless I have something stated officially or proven to me I am not going to publish it as a fact. That’s just the way I was taught, I need reliable sources to form my credibility. […]
Storyful
Dublin and Belfast are like night and day. That’s a horrible cliché, but it’s fine. Earlier in my travels I compared Belfast to the calm after the storm, but in Dublin there was never a storm. It’s always sunny all the time. Anyone who came with me to the meeting at Storyful is going to […]
