I Approach Stories As A Private Educational

I Approach Stories As A Private Educational Enterprise: I Want To Learn About Something. I Teach Myself Through Research, Reporting, And Thinking, And Then, When I Feel Like I Know The Story, I Tell It To Readers.

The World Is So Huge That People Are Always Getting Lost In It. There Are Too Many Ideas And Things And People Too Many Directions To Go. I Was Starting To Believe That The Reason It Matters To Care Passionately About Something Is That It Whittles The World Down To A More Manageable Size. It Makes The World Seem Not Huge And Empty But Full Of Possibility.

I've Noticed Lately That It Seems Most Intimate To Not Use Any Closing On Your E-mail At All, Because It Seems To Make It Feel Like You Are Engaged In An Ongoing Conversation - As If This One E-mail Doesn't Represent The Beginning And End Of The Interaction But Is Just Part Of A Perpetual Loop Of Friendly Back-and-forth.

Unlimited Choice Is Paralyzing. The Internet Has Made This Form Of Paralysis Due To Option Overload A Standard Feature Of Comfortable Modern Life.

One Of The Very Best Reasons For Having Children Is To Be Reminded Of The Incomparable Joys Of A Snow Day.