I’m trying to write a novel this summer. My goal is to finish it by the end of August. It won’t be an easy task. I have no formal training in creative writing, nor have I tried to write fiction before. But I’m committed to doing it; I have something to say, I think, and […]
Society sees enthusiasm as a good thing to have. We inculcate it in our children. Ralph Waldo Emerson said that “[n]othing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” Jack Harbaugh, the father of NFL coaches Jim and John Harbaugh, taught his boys to attack each day with “an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.” Enthusiasm has not always […]
