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."

I wouldn't call it

By Andrew on Sun, 04/13/2008 - 12:38pm.

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.

Self-absorption

By adamg on Sun, 04/13/2008 - 4:19pm.

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.

it's not bad writing

By Anonymous on Sun, 04/13/2008 - 12:23pm.

a little snarky but not bad.

The Globe's third metro columnist is back

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wasn't she a metro columnist earlier, too?

You're right

But did she tell them she was a reporter?

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

Do you think I could trade

stick around

sliding scale

I wouldn't call it

Self-absorption

it's not bad writing

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