The Globe's third metro columnist is back

With a cute column about becoming an American.

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Submitted by adamg on Sun, 04/13/2008 - 8:23am.

wasn't she a metro columnist earlier, too?

I know I've seen that picture on B1 before.

Ron Newman | Sun, 04/13/2008 - 8:43am

You're right

The mind is a terrible thing to lose. Yep, she knocked off a few columns before going out on maternity leave, so I've changed the headline.

adamg | Sun, 04/13/2008 - 9:14am

But did she tell them she was a reporter?

Commie, terrorist. Sure OK. But a reporter? Amazing she got approved.

anon (not verified) | Sun, 04/13/2008 - 8:46am

Just once, I wish they'd say...

...no, I'm sorry, but you're not enough of a wise-ass to become a U.S. citizen...

But they really (really) don't have a sense of humor.

DebGeisler (not verified) | Sun, 04/13/2008 - 9:02am

Do you think I could trade

Do you think I could trade her my US citizenship for her australian?

pierce | Sun, 04/13/2008 - 9:49am

stick around

I don't think you ought to required to be a US citizen but I don't know how readily Australia wants you or anybody for that matter.

Stick around. Maybe we can get the war criminals their day in court and you'll feel better about being counted in the land of the free.

Anonymous | Sun, 04/13/2008 - 4:56pm

sliding scale

She's gone for months and comes back with some self-absorbed fluff and you grade it "cute" while everything Adrian Walker writes is just about the worst thing ever written in your eyes? What the heck is going on? You could at least have run with "Yvonne extends her maternity leave another week."

MT (not verified) | Sun, 04/13/2008 - 10:26am

I wouldn't call it

I wouldn't call it "self-absorbed fluff." She makes some good points -- in a rather subtle and "cute" way -- about the difficulties facing immigrants who want to become citizens nowadays, and the things native-born citizens might take for granted.

Andrew (not verified) | Sun, 04/13/2008 - 11:38am

Self-absorption

Perhaps, but as Andrew says, at least she makes some subtle points.

Also, she's writing based on something that actually happened to her, unlike Walker, who gets all hyperventilated over stuff you just know he's never actually experienced, such as beach erosion in Winthrop or dealing with Boston street-sweeping restrictions. She didn't devote 90% of her column to regurgitating some news story from the day (or week) before and then ending with some lame-ass platitude about how whatever she's "writing" about sure is a shame.

So yeah, I'd cut her some slack for a column or two.

adamg | Sun, 04/13/2008 - 3:19pm

it's not bad writing

a little snarky but not bad.

Anonymous | Sun, 04/13/2008 - 11:23am

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