I should have seen it coming, but I didn’t. I didn’t envision my future as a journalist, despite my heavy involvement with newspapers over the years. A Writer’s Life Foreshadowed As an elementary school student, it thrilled me to contribute my poem about a deer, based on our third-grade Alaskan studies unit at Parkview Elementary …
I knew I wanted to be a journalist from a very young age. My family had moved to Ireland for the second time just after my eleventh birthday. A year later I discovered punk rock and was particularly enthralled with the Boomtown Rats. I would sit glued to the television, absolutely mesmerized by the brief …
I recall a project in high school where my fellow students and I were tasked with coming up with potential careers we wanted after graduation. In the tenth or eleventh grade (whenever this assignment came across my desk), I was not thinking about college, working a career, and becoming an adult. At the time, I …