“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.” -Proverb

I have a memory of when I was about four or five years old. I was home with my father and I was bored. Very bored.

So, I went up to him and asked, as most children do, for him to please fix it.

I think it probably went something like this: “Daddy, I’m sooooo bored!!!”

My father stopped whatever he was doing, sat down with me at the kitchen table, took out a pen and paper and made a list of all...