Everything I Needed To Know About Journalism I Learned Frosh Year Dept.: I also found in the file cabinet, much to my glee, my cubbish yet oddly wise Rules Of Journalism. I really thought it would get deeper than this once I was in the profession, but…

From the files, as I finish packing up the Seattle apartment. I read this in the paper a few weeks before the first time I moved to The City, and here it is again and twice as valid at my age:

“[New York] is the most exquisite place in the world, where you can do nothing and know that the quality of what you’re not doing is of the highest order.”

— Linda Goldstein-Plattner, LA Times, 23 May 1990.