'Have You Always Been Creative?'

"The Child is Father of the Man" —William Wordsworth

A student named Avery had a few questions for me:

Would you consider yourself someone who has always been creative?

I didn't think of myself as particularly creative. Making stuff was just expected in my family. I'm the youngest of a family of five kids, and we had to invent our own amusements. My dad was a mechanical engineer and a kind of mad scientist …