Sarah Greenbaum: BootsnAll Photojournalist

Sarah Greenbaum
BootsnAll Photojournalist

Sarah Greenbaum: New Yorker, Oregonian, writer, and traveler.

I was born and raised a New Yorker, and no matter how I try to stop it, the attitude just creeps out sometimes. Like when my Oregonian isn’t delivered by the time I leave my house in the morning – poor paper man who answers the telephone. Or when I have to gather all the salespeople in Albertson’s together because I can’t find the wasabi, and not one of them knows what wasabi is. That’s when I call upon the New Yorker in me. But most of the time, I feel at home in Eugene, where I’ve been living since I started the magazine journalism Master’s program at the University of Oregon in June, 2001.

Since then, I have basically been trying to convince my professors that journalism is all about drinking as much and sleeping as late as possible! That’s where all the good stories come from (don’t let anyone tell you otherwise)! These days, when I’m not slaving away in the computer lab, I try to see as much live music, meet as many fun people, and get stranded in as many small towns as possible (sometimes I think mine is the first nosering the town’s ever seen).

Sarah and the inimitable, well-nigh indestructible Sally.

I also try to take lots of road trips (I just started driving two years ago – Manhattanites are late drivers), but I’ve been finding it harder and harder to return to Eugene without yet another dent in my car, Sally. You’ll know it’s me on the road when you see the Widespread Panic stickers and missing headlight. I’ll also probably be singing Kenny Rogers songs at the top of my lungs (it may be painful to watch), sometimes with my eyes closed temporarily.

I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in English and French. After graduation, I moved to Paris and worked there for four months in a micro brewery. From there I moved to Chapel Hill, NC, for a year and a half. Chapel Hill was just a little too small; Eugene is the perfect balance between Chapel Hill and New York City.

I will have my Master’s in September (God willing), and then, if Eugene hasn’t gotten too small for me by then, I’d like to stick around for a year or so. But I will probably end up moving to Portland or Seattle, wherever I can find a job (yuck).

And then I will buy a dog.

Look to the left for links to all of Sarah’s BootsnAll articles, or just click here to read the Rural Oregon Travel Guide, which Sarah will be udpating for her journalism internship with BootsnAll. Also feel free to email her at SG4313@aol.com.

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