What Motivates My Writing?

I think some of us in the field, we look around us and maybe we have a certain image of what a scholar ought to look like. Have you always felt like, no, this is who I am kind of coming right in? Or do you just knew from the beginning that you're a wide ranging kind of scholar? Well, maybe a bit of both. And they start with a comment about my wide ranging work or a rangeiness or something like that. You know, they speak of it appreciatively and that was meaningful to me.