Like - Reading Articles

It’s pretty much a joke at this point but I love reading articles. News stories are almost always too short and books are almost always too long. But a long form article? Butter me up and give me a coffee because I’m going reading. I want to learn just enough about a person, place, idea, or situation. I want to get the story's most essential elements and then move on with my life. I’m not a historian, sociologist, or an anthropologist. I’m someone with time on his hands with a trenchant desire to learn something in around 5,000 words or less—which, if we’re being honest, is plenty of space to say something meaningful. Will it be the entire story? No. But I also don’t need to read the entire story of how the American Chestnut was decimated and might one day return. I’m sure that information is out there but I have a job and enough of a life to not spend it reading 400 pages on such an arcane topic. But that doesn’t mean I don’t want to know a little bit about a subjects. In that way, articles are like getting a spoonful of knowledge from a buffet. It’s more than a chip-like factoid but also not the bread bowl of information found in a book. It’s just a little something to flavor my day to keep running this metaphor. Yum.