If I weren’t paid for telling stories with data, I would still be telling stories anyway. I am immensely impressed by people who write well—those who carefully sidestep overused clichés of our time—and by those who can teach well.

I’m at my happiest when you catch me at my desk, scribbling away like a maniac, or in the kitchen with my wooden spatula, laser focused.

I once drifted with the tide, but now my anchor holds firm in the Rock of Ages