Who Am I, Anyway?

I won a poetry contest in second grade, but that was a long time ago.

I was a journalism major in college and I wrote for a metropolitan daily newspaper in the days before the Internet (please see ancient photograph with typewriter.) Newspaper writing and editing demand a kind of terseness, a word-Zen, almost. This kind of writing made me want to write expansive, meditative things and also poetry, a secret vice in which I indulge almost daily.