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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 […]
A little slice of journalism pie
Trying to compress the entire slavery/segregation struggle in the U.S. down to two pages is really hard. Like really hard. And tomorrow I have to work on the Irish history of the troubles/Protestant and Catholic segregation and narrow it down to two pages. Which I know even less about, so that will also be very […]
Let’s call a frog a frog and a spoon a spoon
I think as a journalist being neutral is the key to successful writing. People don’t care what you have to say, they care about having the facts presented to them in a fair way that makes them understandable. This is a challenging task in Belfast. As an outsider I feel I have no right to […]
Hey dude, will you pass the salt?
Huge portions. 32-oz soft drinks. Cheeseburgers, greasy pizza, and chili cheese fries. Salt. Paying for services you’ll never see. Our flat “O” accent. And in the case of being from Illinois, multiple arrested governors. These are my first thoughts when talking about being an American. But there’s so much more to it than […]
