It Is Hard To Imagine

Now We're E-mailing And Tweeting And Texting So Much, A Phone Call Comes As A Fresh Surprise. I Get Text Messages On My Cell Phone All Day Long, And It Warbles To Alert Me That Someone Has Sent Me A Message On Facebook Or A Reply Or Direct Message On Twitter, But It Rarely Ever Rings.

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.

What's Funny Is That The Idea Of Popularity - Even The Use Of The Word 'popular' - Is Something That Had Been Mostly Absent From My Life Since Junior High. In Fact, The Hallmark Of Life After Junior High Seemed To Be The Shedding Of Popularity As A Central Concern.

I Went To A Football School, Which Meant That I Went To A University That Served Up Education And Was Simultaneously Operating A Sports Franchise.

It Is Hard To Imagine Thomas Kinkade As Anything Less Than Supremely Self-assured.