Welcome, welcome Father Dad!
We love reading your writings and would love to learn more about you.
Every week, we will add new prompts to this page. You can choose what you do and don't want to write about - and skip those all together that don't inspire you. You can go in any order you'd like or create your own topics if you prefer. This is just fodder to get you started; some questions are purposefully ambiguous - make them your own.
New topics each week will be highlighted in green.
- Tell us about a historical event during your life and how it shaped you as a person.
- What do you think is the most interesting thing about each of your parents?
- What was your favorite story to cover over your career as a journalist?
- What was the most interesting thing you learned in school? Why did you find is so fascinating.
- Write about one recent event as if you were covering it for a newspaper.
- Write about one historical event as if you were covering it for a newspaper.
- Write about one biblical event as if you were covering it for a newspaper.
- What's the biggest mistake you've ever made?
- What's the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to you?
- What's the scariest thing that's ever happened to you?
Tell us about a historical event during your life and how it shaped you as a person.
ReplyDeleteLet me think this through.
I have lived through:
The space age.
The computer age.
Desegregation. That will probably be my final answer, but while I'm on a roll:
The Vietnam War. I had to register for the draft, but they didn't call a draft the year I graduated high school. The next year, I had a high draft number, but they would had to call all the 18-year-olds before I was at risk. There was an exemption for college, and I don't know what I would have done if I had been drafted.
The war on terror. Samaritan's Purse sent me to Afghanistan 3 months after 9-11. It was a memorable but uneventful trip.
I was at Ground Zero a week after 9-11.
I was in Kosovo just after the Balkan war.
I was in Sudan and met President Omar Al-Bashir the day he was indicted for war crimes.
I was in Sri Lanka and Indonesia in the days following the 2004 tsunami.
I was in Uganda during the AIDS epidemic and met the First Lady, Janet Yoserimi.
I was in China after the 2008? earthquake.
As a sportswriter:
I was at Notre Dame for the Catholics vs. Convicts game, Notre Dame vs. Miami.
I was at Atlanta for Richard Petty's last race and Jeff Gordon's first race.
I was at the Masters Golf tournament three times: One won by Ben Crenshaw, and I don't remember the other two for sure.