Burn Your Portfolio: Stuff they don’t teach you in design school, but should

43. Shake the Bushes or Get Bit

I grew up on a lake by a forest in northern Indiana. My wife once likened my upbringing to that of the Dukes of Hazzard—a comparison that was only slightly off. Catching snakes was a pastime for my four brothers and me. We would spend the day in the forest with a can and a stick hunting for our slithering friends. We were afraid of the rare but poisonous Massasauga rattlesnake that we had convinced ourselves roamed the area looking for little boys to corner and bite. The can we brought with us was used to collect the snakes. The stick was used to shake the bushes and underbrush to scare snakes out of hiding. When the snakes slithered away from the bushes, we could see if it was a scary rattlesnake or the harmless ...