17
Aug
2012
The Student Whisperer
By all accounts, Timothy Westbrook is a cheerful guy. He’s beaming whenever I see him: showing one of his fabrics to a guest, chatting with staff, carrying a cup of coffee through the halls or waving from behind the sewing machine in his studio. Beaming. His good mood radiates with a different frequency today. Three […]
13
Jul
2012
Optimization
“I don’t have the personality to keep asking questions that someone doesn’t want to answer,” Dustin says. “I’m not imposing enough and I don’t like to make other people uncomfortable.” Coupled with a dawning shrinkage of the newspaper industry, Dustin abandoned plans for a journalism career toward the end of college. “I was too far […]