For as long as I can remember, I have been infatuated with good stories and those who tell them.

Family legends, classic books and movies, and well-crafted TV series have all captured my attention, but the stories that have always interested me the most were written in the newspaper.

Now I am a junior at the University of Notre Dame, trying to figure out how I can keep telling stories for the rest of my life.

Here you can find a few I have told along the way.

In the constantly changing media environment, which is shaped more and more by the web, writing no longer means simply putting pen to paper or banging on a keyboard. Stories are still demanded; just in different ways.

That is why you will find straight news pieces, magazine articles, research papers, short video and audio reports, and maybe an essay or short story or two in this portfolio.

I hope this collection will first of all provide you with some sort of enjoyment, and will secondly help me find a chance to tell some stories to a few more readers.