In the meantime, I can count on the temperature to be perfect enough to sit in my grandparents’s garden, tying flies for fly fishing. Patience, persistence and precision: nothing in my arsenal of editing experience comes close to matching the advantages of understanding these three life lessons. When he’s not teaching students, you can expect to find him using that endless patience to go fly fishing. My grandfather once said that only after tying a fly over 50 times can you begin to think of mastering it. Being good at tying flies isn’t only about mastering techniques.