Welcome. It’s going to be a challenge. But it’s going to be fun, too. Believe me. Reporting is just fun, even when it’s hard (and maybe especially when it’s hard) because it’s such a privilege to be the person to whom other people tell their stories.

By the end of the day, I will have posted the lecture topic list and the summer syllabus just below the photograph on this blog. I’m almost there. So stay tuned.

But don’t sit still. Get started. Read. Think. Talk to people you’ve never met before. Stories are all around us, every day. You just have to find them, and tell them.