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Posted on July 21, 2011 4 Comments
The news is a very fickle thing. As an old journalism adage goes, “If it bleeds, it leads.” I understand this. The news is constantly changing. Journalists are attempting to accurately record history as it unravels. It simply isn’t possible to cover every story out there. What bothers me, however, is that once a certain time […]
Posted on July 17, 2011 4 Comments
(Namerikawa train station) My initial train story was about a Japanese man from Chiba visiting Toyama just after the earthquake and tsunami in March. On Monday, I had another interesting train encounter, though this time with an American man in Toyama for the summer. It is not often you see a foreigner in Toyama […]
Posted on May 29, 2011 2 Comments
In Chicago, my favorite time of year was probably Fall, a season I always associated with bright colors on trees and new beginnings. I always looked forward to the new school year and often thought about goals and the person I wanted to become at the end of the school term. Now that I am […]
Posted on March 31, 2011 4 Comments
I have met dozens of interesting people on train rides around the world. On a train ride to Howth, a seaside town northeast of Dublin, an American couple told me I was crazy for moving to the Emerald Isle alone. I laughed and clutched my copy of Nuala O’Faolain’s My Dream of You and told them about […]
Posted on March 24, 2011 1 Comment
I grew up just outside of Chicago, the third largest city in America, so life in a small Japanese town is very different from anything I am accustomed to. Although the tiny south suburb I was raised in often felt like a small town to me, the sense of community that is fostered in Namerikawa […]
Sheila Burt 