Dear Reader,
Before I started The Sun thirty-one years ago, I got a lot of advice. Had I followed most of it, I wouldn’t be sitting here today with our 353rd issue in my hand. So when I got a call recently from a young woman who wanted my advice about starting a magazine, I was hesitant to offer any. Mostly, I listened.
The woman was idealistic — very idealistic. She’d already spent more than a year defining her editorial mission and gathering wisdom from editors around the country. With great enthusiasm, she described how her publication would be different from all the others on the newsstand. Impressed by her thoughtfulness and passion, I listened for about ten minutes before I broke in. “Your ideas sound great,” I said, “but at some point, you’re going to have to give yourself a deadline and put out your first issue.”
