As a young journalist, I received two pieces of advice that stuck with me. One was “write visually,” something I’ve adhered to since. The second piece was from a professor who said we needed two additions to the 5Ws and an H: So what? And what’s next?
With this essay you achieved all of the above. Thanks to your dad, I’m adding “then what?” to my list, too.
Excellent piece, Frank! A single correction: it's NOAA (National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration), not NOAH. I know because I was funded for over 25 years by NOAA grants when I was employed at Cornell and NCSU. A great agency, and a key one nowadays with climate change and its associated extreme weather events (wildfires, flooding, drought, etc) happening more frequently.
Thanks, Mr. Voiland. I made he correction. Being a sailor, I also knew better. I never left port without a thorough check with the NOAA forecast for Coastal NC. Channels 16 and 22 were standard listening.
Thanks, Mick. I'm glad you appreciated it. BTW, I did make the change. Such an elementary error on my part. Guess it was the Old Testament flood warning that was on my mind...LOL.
As a young journalist, I received two pieces of advice that stuck with me. One was “write visually,” something I’ve adhered to since. The second piece was from a professor who said we needed two additions to the 5Ws and an H: So what? And what’s next?
With this essay you achieved all of the above. Thanks to your dad, I’m adding “then what?” to my list, too.
Excellent piece, Frank! A single correction: it's NOAA (National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration), not NOAH. I know because I was funded for over 25 years by NOAA grants when I was employed at Cornell and NCSU. A great agency, and a key one nowadays with climate change and its associated extreme weather events (wildfires, flooding, drought, etc) happening more frequently.
Thanks, Mr. Voiland. I made he correction. Being a sailor, I also knew better. I never left port without a thorough check with the NOAA forecast for Coastal NC. Channels 16 and 22 were standard listening.
Thanks, Mick. I'm glad you appreciated it. BTW, I did make the change. Such an elementary error on my part. Guess it was the Old Testament flood warning that was on my mind...LOL.