It’s my mother’s fault.
Really, it is.
It all started when I was a kid, and she subscribed to three different newspapers, my hometown
Texarkana Gazette,
The Dallas Morning News and
The Wall Street Journal, plus a rotating group of magazines that included
Newsweek,
U.S. News and World Report,
TIME magazine,
Texas Monthly, and
Sports Illustrated.
She read all of them faithfully, and so did I. I was 7...