WARNING: This is a no-edit zone…

As human beings, we snip phrases like “S/he’s got the bug.”

We might mean a virus (very much on my mind as one’s laid me low for the past four days) or we might mean an intense interest in something like writing or photography or a desire for a new car.

Having the bug isn’t limited to any one thing, of course.  I remember back in high school, one of our children getting the bug on oceanography.  He was mesmerized by it and that interest impacted the direction of his life.   (The lesson shared is that in some lifelong interests can and do develop early.)

Many of us get the bug to write.  READ MORE…