4. This is an X-Rated Newsletter

A snapshot from back when I was learning to write.

The word “I” has always been one part of my journalism. 

I began my career in journalism, in the early 2000s, during the steady rise of the personal essay, the slow adoption of that medium by outlets that pay people to write, and the erosion of hard-and-fast rules that prohibited use of the word “I” in an…