I’m using some of my post-graduation free time to create a bit of an online catalog of my clips. I think it’s important to have these online as I look for freelance/job opportunities and I think most are not accessible at The Palm Beach Post Web site anymore. I’ll put them up over time, in a series of posts. Today I’m just putting up some fun clips.
To start, here are some of my favorite stories from the years:
First, there’s the story I wrote about a celebration of the Virgin of Guadalupe at a Catholic Church in South Florida. It was such an interesting experience, to see the way these people were celebrating their heritage, culture and religion. But the day was equally a celebration of the community – the children who’ve grown up together, the older people who’ve endured long lives of hard work to make it in a new country. It was a hopeful scene and one that made me appreciate the diversity of our state.
One morning while I worked the Sunday shift at the Delray Beach Bureau of The Palm Beach Post, my editor called to tell me he’d heard someone was moving a house downtown. So I drove down there and, sure enough, there were a bunch of people already getting drunk and cheering for this house that was inching it’s way down the street. I can only imagine how long they watched that house moving along…
I also wrote a story about a pro-am tennis tournament in Delray Beach. The focus of this story was former pro Anna Kournikova playing on a doubles team with former President George H.W. Bush (that’s the older Bush, in case you’re confused). Anyways, Kournikova served a ball right into Bush’s back! At first I was horrified, along with the rest of the crowd, I suspect. He’s not exactly young and that was a fast ball! But he laughed it off and made a little joke and then the whole arena started laughing. Kournikova was mortified but she got back to playing – more carefully this time!
I’ll probably add some more of these clips as time goes by. It’s nice to look back and see what I’ve done.
