I wanted to start a YouTube channel. Here’s the story of why I didn’t (or, why I haven’t yet!), and maybe it can give you an aha for a project you’re stuck on.
It was the summer of 2020 and, like everyone else, I was kind of down and bored and looking for something to do. So I thought I would start a YouTube channel to teach people how to play music by ear.
Read MoreI have had an uneven tennis season.
I started back to the sport at the end of February and benefited from being in Atlanta, a tennis mecca if there ever was one. I had lost most of my tennis friends when I moved away shortly before the pandemic, but I worked my way up to playing five or six days a week through a combination of clinics, flex league matches, and casual play with friends and family.
Read MoreYears ago, I recorded an album of original songs in my parents’ basement in the space of about two weeks.
I played all of the instruments, engineered and mixed all of the music, and even designed the cover and insert.
There was a hard deadline: I was moving to California, and I wanted to get the thing done before then, so I did.
Read MoreI never enjoyed cooking very much because I always had the vague sense that I didn’t know what I was doing.
Even though I spent years working in commercial kitchens, I didn’t have much of an awareness of knife technique or other aspects of food preparation. Therefore, I was intimidated by recipes. I stuck to routine meals that I could figure out through trial and error.
Read MoreHave you ever had a task that lingered on your to-do list so long that it started to resemble a scary container of leftovers from the back of the fridge?
It isn’t always logical which tasks are going to end up moldy. Some of them really don’t take long to do, yet they keep getting passed over and procrastinated on. There’s always something else that is more urgent or appealing.
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