Here's A Habit I Never Thought I'd

I Remember Thinking That A Girdle Was Barbaric, And That Never In A Million Years Would I Treat Myself Like A Sleeping Bag Being Shoved Into A Stuff Sack. Never! Instead, I Would Run Marathons And Work Out And Be In Perfect Shape And Reject The Tyranny Of The Girdle Forever.

I Never Thought Very Many People In The World Were Very Much Like John Laroche, But I Realized More And More That He Was Only An Extreme, Not An Aberration - That Most People In Some Way Or Another Do Strive For Something Exceptional, Something To Pursue, Even At Their Peril, Rather Than Abide An Ordinary Life.

I Like The Idea That People Get Engaged Thinking About Design, About Creativity. I Don't See How It Could Possibly Be Bad.

I Love Writing Traditional Magazine Pieces, And Especially Their Breadth Of Reporting And The Deliberateness Of The Writing.

Recently, I Have Come To Assume That Any Call To My Landline Is From A Telemarketer Or An Automated Call From Terminex, Letting Me Know That Our Regularly Scheduled Pest-extermination Service Will Occur On Its Regular Schedule. So I Usually Ignore My Home Phone.