When I graduated from high school, all I really knew professionally was that I wanted to write on many topics. Last weekend when people at my high school reunion asked politely what I wrote about, I did find myself saying, many topics—in fact, way more now than when I worked as a staff journalist. Okay, I’m not covering the full human condition. Much of the universe is unexplored. But so far this year I’ve done stories about medical hackathons and crowdsourced scientific challenges, global data security and global financial crises (still separate topics so far!), drug development crises, the future of suburbia, steam power, gene therapy,  agricultural particulates, the challenges of small data in healthcare, chemical sensing on a chip, employee cross-training,  urban carbon dioxide release, jet engines, zebrafish brains, surgery by telemedicine and robotics manufacturing, among others.