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Got an old trumpet or guitar collecting dust? Do you want to learn to play the piano all over again? Maybe  you used to play way back when. What happened? Did you put it away and forget about it? Did ‘life’ get in the way? If so, why?
Playing solo just for the sheer hell of it can be a challenge, and even more so if you’ve not played for a few years. However, the rewards of relearning an instrument are worth the time, effort, and pain.
Relearning an instrument is like …

When the wife and I moved to Korea, we left a lot behind behind: our family and friends, a big apartment, the comfort of the familiar, and the very icons of our Americanity: our cars.
We both drove late model gas sippers. We didn’t have a choice. In our town, like most other cities in the States, public transportation is a sad joke. Cities are sprawling messes of unplanned development. If sidewalks exist, they’re usually in terrible states of disrepair. In the country, if you don’t drive, you either rely on …

I just finished watching Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture. If you haven’t seen it, you can watch the full video here.
For a synopsis, I’m going to be lazy and quote from Wikipedia:
“Pausch delivered his “Last Lecture,” titled Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, at Carnegie Mellon on September 18, 2007. This talk was modeled after an ongoing series of lectures where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them, and then give a hypothetical “final talk”, i.e., “what wisdom would you try to impart to the world …