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Extra: Journeys to and From Home becoming The Tern

Greetings to all of you! To my frequent readers over the past year and a half, I am most thankful. I have decided to move forward with my website, and my ambitions, and launch an online newspaper. I have chosen to name the paper The Tern. The name comes from a small sailboat, The Arctic Tern, which my parents co-owned in the ’90s. The boat was docked at Monroe Harbor in Chicago.

The Tern will be a politically centre-left paper that ultimately will have a global focus. However, for now for the sake of my own sanity, this enterprise will focus primarily on the United States with future desks to open in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and France. At present I have come to an agreement with the following writers, who will write the various sections of The Tern:

Politics: Frank Kane, This Week in Washington, Seán Kane: UN Observer

Sport: Seán Kane: Formula 1, Mac Chapman: Soccer

Lifestyle: Maggie Weir

Film: Cullan May

The Tern will simultaneously published in French as La Sterne. All of the English language articles will be translated into French. This paper will at first not be a daily, nor a weekly, nor a monthly. Rather, individual articles will come out on their own respective days of the week.

If you have any interest in writing for The Tern, please email me at sean.kane@ternnews.com

Again, a thousand thanks to all of you for your readership!

-Seán Kane.

Editor in Chief at The Tern

Rédacteur en chef: La Sterne

Journeys to and From Home – 1 Year Later

Kansas City – Strange as it may sound, today marks the 1st anniversary of my launching of the blog that has since grown into my website, Journeys to and From Home, or as it is typed http://sthosdkane.com/ . I have to say that I am quite proud of how this site has grown over the past year, and certainly did not imagine that it would still be around one year after it’s inception.

One year ago, I launched this blog, with the intent of recording my experiences as an undergraduate studying at the University of Westminster in London. Like many of my friends who also started blogs for the same purpose, I could very well have cut this one off at that point. But, upon thinking about it some more, I figured that there would be a good use for the blog in the future, that it could be a good replacement for my column Kansas City Catholic Examiner, which was largely filled with my own opinions on Catholic theology and social life. As a matter of fact, I still am officially listed as being the writer of that column, so perhaps it will have a comeback…

Journeys to and From Home has greatly expanded my audience, and the reach of my work. To date this website has been viewed by readers in 40 countries around the world, with fairly high concentrations in North America, Europe, Brazil, and Australia and New Zealand. This has especially come with my decision to begin writing regularly on the Formula 1 World Championship with the beginning of the 2014 season.

With the first year behind, it is time to start looking into the second year, into what will come next. I plan on continuing to write on Formula 1, along with writing the odd arts review.

Anyhow, thanks to all of you for subscribing, and reading my work over the past year! May many more years lie in the future.

-Seán.

An introduction

Kansas City – My name is Seán Kane. I am a student majoring in History, Philosophy, and Theology at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri in the United States. This blog is intended to serve the purpose of giving a sort of public record of my travels and experiences, in particular an upcoming study abroad trip at the University of Westminster in the UK.Image

You’ll also find pieces being written about my films, music, and much more here, within reason. There will be the occasional piece here or there that is not in English, but as Gaeilge (in Irish) ou en français. Don’t worry, an English translation will be provided.

If there is any sort of commenting, do feel free to comment, but please be civil, as I reserve the right to delete any comments that I deem to be defamatory or insulting.

Tá, Seán.