Recently,the promotions team at NPR asked us to write up little 25 second pieces about why we work at NPR (or something like that).  So,I wrote about being trapped in the back seat of a very small Subaru listening to NPR (KCRW at the time) while sitting in traffic on the 101 or the 405 or Forest Lawn Drive.  That was the beginning.  Then when I was older,my parents would actually discuss the stories with me –not just the content but the production.  Then there was the Marantz professional tape deck my dad got me when I was 11 or 12.  I still use the RE-50 microphone that came with it.

I suppose my career path was inevitable.  And I feel incredibly lucky that it’s all worked out this way. Here’s the final product,at 25 seconds of it.

The photos in the video are me when I was a kiddo randomly sitting on a small battery operated car,me interviewing Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour about the BP oil spill,and me in Haiti shortly after the earthquake.