The size of this group has quickly come to fit its container. My three journalism students are already hot on the trail of good stories here. The three theater & design students I glimpse in the Quiet Room being creatively unquiet with their three instructors, generating ideas for 10-minutes plays we’ll present at the John […]

Up at 6 am, or 1 am for the me left in Virginia, who is receding into thin air. Still not fully linked in, synced, converted, MSWorded, netted, tweeted or mediated. Feeling shorthanded and web-footed. My contact, the AP man for the whole of Ireland, gone camping in France for the month. But left me […]

It seems serene enough, this Armagh, Northern Ireland, ancient seat of two cathedrals both named for St. Patrick – one Church of Ireland (with ties to the Church of England), the other Roman Catholic. But dig below the quiet (and friendly!) surface, and you see signs of conflict. One of the gorgeous stained glass windows […]