The Last Lecture
Randy
Pausch and
his Last Lecture
I have taught at the college level for nearly two decades and have loved the experience of teaching. In
addition, I have spent almost that much time listening to professors lecturing while going to college,
graduate
school, and post-graduate school. Never have I given nor heard a more moving and honest lecture in all
those
years than the one given by Dr. Randy Pausch as his Last Lecture. I have watched that video many times.
Mike Schmitt, who is a friend of mine, gave me the link to that video. Part of the reason was that he saw
some
similarities between Pausch and me.
One of the similarities that I discovered while watching Pausch's Last Lecture was that we have both
danced
with death. He had pancreatic cancer, and I had prostate cancer. However, while my cancer was treated
and I am
fine, he was not as fortunate. Nevertheless, Pausch was a man who truly understood life, because he
understood
that he would die within several months of his lecture.
If you have not danced with death and learned the lesson of truly living, please set aside the time to
watch
this video. It will change your life. Trust me.
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There are several additional similarities between us. The critically important one is that both of us
love our
children. However, I also have three grandchildren. Sadly, his children were too young to remember him
before he
died. Another comparison is that Pausch and I both grew up in Presbyterian families. Finally, we both
lived in
Pittsburgh and loved the Pittsburgh Steelers. This photo is of Pausch after he caught a pass during a
Steelers
practice.
Pausch practicing as a wide receiver
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Deal with Others as She Dealt with Us
12/18/24
Healthcare in America
A Line Between Murder and Doing Business
12/16/24
It’s Med Time--
A Follow-up to Sauna Time
11/22/24
It’s Sauna Time
If You Want To Enjoy Life
11/20/24
It's a Long, Long Road
From Which There is No Return
11/04/24
Happy Birthday Ginger
She Turned Eight Today
10/28/24
What’s With the Water?
Water, Water, Everywhere
10/14/24
Professor Keating and I
We Both Took Mrs. Davis’s English Class
10/07/24
Becoming a Monkey King
It's More Than Mere Monkey Business
09/04/24
We Are All Teachers
Be Careful What You Teach
08/28/24
Ginger Has Done the Dance
We Are Bonded as Dancers
08/21/24
Lessons Learned in Former British Colonies
Like America, South Africa, and Myanmar
07/31/24
The Third Old Man
Or Three Coins in the Fountain of Life
07/29/24
A Story of Two Old Men
And How They Will Be Remembered
07/26/24
It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again
With the Father and Son
07/05/24
How Will We Be Remembered
Another Either / Or Essay
06/28/24
A Funny Thing Happened
At My Doctor’s Office
06/17/24
I’m Leading Death Again
On My Dancefloor of Life
06/10/24
What’s It All About, Alfie
According to Longfellow
05/31/24
The Flying Dutchman
Then and Now
05/03/24
Repeating Bad History
Creates Newer Bad History
04/10/24
Bush’s Bus Ride
Leadership or Roadkills
04/05/24
Ginger Trains Her Owner
And I’m Obedient
04/03/24
Standing on the Hill
Our Human Destiny
03/20/24
Träumerei
Then and Now
03/15/24
It’s Better to Burn Out
Than to Fade Away
03/06/24
Kicking the Can Down the Road, Again
50th Mass Shootings in America This Year
02/16/24
My Hill of Beans Paradox
Created by the James Webb Space Telescope
01/26/24
My Birthday
And the Age of Aquarius
01/24/24
What’s It All About...
The Paradox of Life
12/29/23
Why Write?
Answers from Vonnegut and Faulkner
12/20/23
My Yin Yang World
Dreams vs. Reality
12/08/23
Ginger’s Gift to Dr. Derrè
Ginger Stated, “Dr. Derrè’s My Vet”
12/01/23
On the Road Again
Ginger, the Pooh Dog, and Me
11/10/23
If I Were Q
I’d Tell the Whole Story of the Téméraire
11/08/23
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
A Lesson Taught by Dylan Thomas
11/06/23
Ginger’s 7th Birthday
What’s Life All About, Alfie?
10/30/23
Sagan’s Golden Records
On the Horns of a Dilemma
10/27/23
Ginger’s Check-Up
Again, at Purdue Veterinary Hospital
10/04/23
My Second Shot
Or the First Insurrection
09/22/23
My World of Xanadu
Another Personal Parallel Essay
09/20/23
Tyson’s Two Thoughts
Regarding AI and a Ticking Clock
09/15/23
The Importance of Happenstance
For Heavenly Clauses
09/08/23
Jumping Hoops for a Prescription
Raises Ethical Issues at Various Levels
09/04/23
Another Dance for Ginger
Learn and Live in the Moment
09/01/23
Thomas and Trump
The Teacher and Student
08/16/23
Haunting Photos
Then and Now
08/09/23
Oppie and Me
The Similarities are Striking
07/24/23
Looking for a Mentor?
Try Jacques Portefaix or Marie-Jeane Valet
07/21/23
The Clown Car Drivers
Are Driving Scared
06/30/23
Stonhenge and Manhattanhenge
What's it all about, Alfie?
06/28/23
The Tree in the Silo
A Metaphor of Me
06/23/23
Pick Mentors Carefully
The Lady and Bobby
06/02/23
Be a Sherpa
Whether or Not You are a Beekeeper or Nepalese
05/31/23
A Suggestion of a Mentor
A Sequel to Picking a Mentor Article
04/07/23
Ginger and I
Our Trip Down the Yellow Brick Road
03/13/23
Music Explains Me
Music Drives Me
03/03/23
Learning from Lao Tzu
To Live Life Daringly
02/13/23
The Importance of Footprints
But the Question is When
01/25/23
What’s It All About Alfie?
From an Eighty-Year Old Alfie
01/20/23
My Quest for Eldorado
In Three Parts
01/16/23
My Way
Morphing to My Mentoring
12/02/22
My Twilight Hauntings...
About Immortality
11/25/22
Ginger is Now Six
As We Do the Dance
10/28/22
Growing Up Without Transparency
And Finally Discovering It
10/14/22
Facing Storms of Life
Another Either/Or Situation
10/07/22
Seeing Things More Clearly
On My Yellow Brick Road
08/22/22
An Important Teaching Moment
Joe and I Are Twins
08/10/22
A Lesson About Life…
Don’t Fear Death…
07/24/22
Doing the Dance on Steroids
And Promises to Keep
06/29/22
Miah Is the 21st Century Eppie
A Hand Is Put Into Theirs….
06/17/22
The Battle of the Alamo…
Past, Present, and Future
05/11/22
Grasping Reality
While My Clock Is Ticking
04/29/22
I Have Miles to Go
Before I Sleep
04/04/22
Seeing the Future
At Least Three Times
03/30/22
My Family in Myanmar:
A Sequel to What’s It All About
03/28/22
The Helter-Skelter Mindset1
Locally and Globally
03/09/22
My Great-Granddaughter
A Younger Version of My Granddaughters
03/07/22
Unintended Consequences
From Easter Island
02/28/22
If Everything Around You Seems Dark…
Look Again. You May Be the Light.
02/26/22
Putin’s Legacy
Gilgamesh’s Lesson
02/23/22
History Is Repetitious
Then and Now
02/21/22
Kiev
Then and Now
01/28/22
When I Become a Billionaire…
A Jaguar SUV Will Be in My Garage
01/26/22
Two Countries
Living in One World
01/24/22
My Dreamland
During My Operation
01/19/22
“Better To Reign in Hell…
Than Serve in heaven.”
01/12/22
A Cancer, Too, Took Root
But the Backstory Is More Important
01/10/22
Christmas:
Past, Present, and Future
12/24/21
There Is More To Life…
Than Paddling Around and Accomplishing Nothing
12/08/21
I Love My Family
With Some Caveats
12/03/21
Archimedes and the Syracusia
It’s All About Dreaming
12/01/21
Waking Up…
To Getting Old
11/29/21
Ginger and I
In Our Recovery Modes
11/22/21
Happy Birthday, Ginger
I Wish You Many More with Your Blue Dolphin
10/29/21
The Duality of Changing
Times Change, and We Change
10/22/21
A Dream Delayed
Or a Dream Dashed
10/13/21
My Takeaway
From the Great Chicago Fire
10/08/21
Revisiting Gilgamesh
A Teaching Moment
09/17/21
The Pros and Cons…
Of Replicating Our Parents
09/06/21
“I’m Doing the Dance”
The Title of Ti Ti’s Poem
09/03/21
Snow’s Poem
About Her New Normal
09/01/21
Realizing the New Normal
What’s All About, Alfie?
08/30/21
There Is a Message in the Mask
Listen To the Medical Professionals or Get Sick
08/25/21
The Eternal Question
The Harvest or the Seeds
08/23/21
Gandhi’s Tribute to Moh Moh
For Her Indomitable Will
08/11/21
It Is Time To Write Poetry
Another Teaching Event
08/06/21
Sir Gawain, the Knight
Doing What a Knight Does
08/01/21
Ginger Doing the Dance
And An Important Takeaway
07/28/21
A Follow-Up to Snow’s Email
Another Teaching Moment
07/26/21
Poets Both Past and Present
Amanda Gorman and Sarah Kay
07/09/21
Resurrection
I’m Alive Along with My Computer, and Ginger
07/07/21
If They See the Goblin…
They Might Also See Planet X.
06/23/21
More Apologies Expressed
To My Physicians
06/21/21
One More Comment For Ti Ti
As She Journeys Down Her Yellow Brick Road
06/11/21
The Little One,
A Part of My Family
06/09/21
Than, a Great Artist
The Art of Playing the Hand Dealt You
06/07/21
Ti Ti is Sweet Seventeen
Happy Birthday
06/02/21
Memorial Day 2021
It Is in Giving that We Get
05/31/21
Reincarnation of Ra-Ra…
Reincarnation of Ra-Ra…
05/14/21
Three Take-Aways
From Denzel Washington’s Commencement Address
05/03/21
He Is My Brother
On This Pale Blue Dot
04/28/21
Problems Offer a Choice
Either a Cul-de-sac or a Challenge
04/23/21
A Funny Thing Happened While on Zoom
My Fourth La Danse Macabre
04/19/21
Learning from Collecting
Written by a Collector of Treasures
04/16/21
I Live in Two Worlds I Have Benefited from One World
03/22/21
What’s It All About Aldie My Haunting Question
03/19/21
We Over Me… Or Me Over We
03/08/21
The Pandas and My Pooh And Other Followers of Gilgamesh
02/03/21
Purposeful Lives On Steroids
01/13/21
A Christmas Carol in 2020… It Is in Giving that We Get
12/25/20
A Secret About Life How To Be Successful
12/21/20
Achilles’ Heel Then and Now
12/16/20
Discerning the Truth A Means to Live Life
11/04/20
Ginger’s Birthday Bash I Hope That She Has Many More
10/30/20
We Are Both Dancers… Ginger and I
10/28/20
The Importance of the Sound of Music… According to Nietzsche and Me
10/26/20
The Devil Made Me Do It. A Presidential Duet
10/09/20
Amazing Grace Or More of the Same Insanity
10/07/20
My Two Worlds… Affect My Life
10/05/20
This Is an Addendum Ti Ti, the Bridge Builder
09/25/20
From Then to Now What a Difference Seven Years Has Made
09/23/20
Dealing with Reality In the Human and Canine World
09/18/20
Two Poems By Two Ladies
09/14/20
Coming Home to Roost Kierkegaard, Mt. Lebanon, Dancing, and My Family
09/04/20
Let Me Get This Straight… About the Trump Flu
08/03/20
Egoism vs Altruism There is a Better Way
07/27/20
The Thoughts of a Doctor A Teaching Opportunity
05/22/20
It Is All About Family And Who Makes Up Our Family
05/20/20
Our Reason for Being Discover It
05/18/20
The World is Dancing… Dancing with Death
04/24/20
“I Could Stand in the Middle of Fifth Avenue….” You Are
Standing on Main
Streets in America and Shooting
04/13/20
The Brighter Side of Life Somewhat Brighter
04/10/20
Plague Doctor Then and Now
04/06/20
Another Teaching Moment About Times Past
03/27/20
Regarding Dancing with Coronavirus Campbell’s Five
Commandments
03/25/20
Let’s Make a Deal Thanks to Modafinil
03/23/20
The Cave vs Reality... That is the Question.
03/20/20
A Teaching Moment For Today and the Future
03/18/20
Trump’s Nemesis President Obama
03/16/20
I Don’t Like Failing Modus Operandi
03/13/20
Think Before You Act Then Dare Greatly
03/09/20
Circle of Life Dance On
03/06/20
Angry Old Men There is an Alternative
02/21/20
Ginger Part 3 of a 4 Part Series
02/05/20
Kayla Dog Whisperer
02/03/20
The Teak Bridge Part 2 of a 4 Parts Series
01/29/20
Perspective
What You See Is What You Get.
09/20/19
It All Boils
Down to
Legacy
What Will You Leave This World?
09/16/19
Plagiarism
Sharpie-Gate
09/11/19
My Wonder Drug
Modafinil
08/23/19
Lili Marleen
A Musical Journey to Reality
07/26/19
Ginger’s Vet
My Shrink
07/19/19
The Dog Days of
Summer
Without Air Conditioning
07/17/19
More Music
More Defining
06/19/19
Another Déjà Vu
In the Arts and Philosophy
06/07/19
The Moving Finger Writes
And the Writings Haunt Me
04/26/19
Lord of the Dance
From Three Perspectives
04/05/19
Coffin Bridge…
Build What You Need
04/01/19
Vocation of An Old Man…
Being a Bridge Builder
03/29/19
I Will Rage, Rage…
On Behalf of 1250 Students and One Celestial Comet
03/25/19
Dealing with the Reaper
By Coming Alive and Living
03/13/19
One Moment in Time
Carpe Diem
03/04/19
Warren Buffett
Don’t Sleep Walk Through Life
02/22/19
I Made a Mistake…
Imagine That
02/13/19
This Essay Is About Morphing
Pelosi, Donald the Dumb, Pausch, Gandhi, and Me
02/11/19
This Essay Addresses Alfie
What’s It All About?
01/28/19
The Wall Issue
The True Value of a Wall
01/14/19
A New Year’s Eve
With a New Resolution for the Coming Year
12/31/18
What Drives Me…
My Himalayan Salt Lamps
12/19/18
Way Back Home…
In America and Myanmar
11/28/18
"Look at Me
I Am Old but I’m Happy"
11/14/18
Serendipitous Moments in My Life
And They Are Haunting Me
10/31/18
Keep Calm
And Things Seem to Work Out
10/24/18
On Making Your Mark
And Leaving It
10/22/18
Bette Davis Eyes…
But They Are in Myanmar
10/19/18
Ginger’s Vet…
My Psychiatrist
10/17/18
A Journey of a Thousand Miles…
Started in a Living Rooms
10/12/18
Rhythm of My Heart
Here and Abroad
10/03/18
Being a Young Turk…
During the 20th Century
09/26/18
Ginger and Me
Just the Two of Us
09/21/18
McCain’s Life and Death
The Life and Times of a Great American
09/10/18
Stumbling into the Truth…
Related to Forever Young
09/07/18
The Pearl of Death
Or the Lesson of Life
09/05/18
Deep State
Bob Woodward and Me
08/15/18
The Meaning of Being
Or Why Am I Here?
08/13/18
Snow, the Virtuoso
Träumerei and The Great Gate of Kiev
08/06/18
If I Fail…
I Will While Daring Greatly
07/06/18
Possible Explanations of Death
A Personal Apocalypse
06/29/18
Ti Ti, Snow, and Fatty
Having Fun Without PaPa Al
06/20/18
Pa Lian Burmese Restaurant
A Place Where I Learned a History Lesson
06/18/18
Stephen Hawking Left Us a Great Deal
We Need To Follow Our Science Professor
06/15/18
Clarity About Dancing
Being Arthur Murray in the Real World
06/11/18
Explaining Doing the Dance…
Man, the Lights Are Bright
05/23/18
Ten Years and Counting
What a Difference a Dance Makes
05/18/18
Ginger is One and a Half Years Old…
But What an Eighteen Months
05/04/18
Henny Penny Cries Out…
“The Sky Is Falling.”
05/02/18
A Wrinkle in Time
Thinking Outside the Box
04/25/18
Marner and Eppie
Me and the Girls
03/16/18
My Heart Issues—Part II
The One That’s Pumping Blood
03/14/18
Gifts Given
But Never Received
03/12/18
The Question Is…
How Will You Be Remembered?
02/26/18
What Would You Attempt To Do
If You Knew You Could Not Fail?
02/21/18
An Age of Revolution
If We But Know What To Do With It
02/16/18
Having a Purpose
Carpe Diem
02/12/18
The Water Horse of Loch Ness
And Our Water Horses of Life
02/07/18
I Failed
For the Time Being
01/26/18
Lesson Learned About Dreaming
I Learned from Bobby
01/22/18
The Best Week of My Life…
Occurred While I Was in Burma
01/12/18
The Scarlet Claw
A Date Night Movie
12/18/17
Doing the Dance...
Fathoming the Unfathomable
12/11/17
Confucius Said...
But We Haven’t Listened
12/04/17
On Picking Mentors
Pick Carefully
12/01/17
The Big Fib:
"I'm, like, a really smart person."
11/27/17
The Tattoo of My Pooh and Me
Ginger and Don Quixote
11/10/17
The Reason Behind...
Everything
11/08/17
Live in the Moment...
Plan for the Future
10/20/17
Free To Be Me—
A Driven Dancer
10/11/17
Lawrence of Arabia
One of My Mentors
10/06/17
Jade Suit...
Then Roll Me Up When I Die.
10/04/17
Ti Ti
A Reason for Being
10/02/17
Ginger and I
Promises To Keep and Miles To Go Before We Sleep
09/29/17
Mr. Lee and Mr. Rotteveel
Two Stories: About When I Was Young and When I Am Old
09/22/17
The Double-Axe
A Symbol of My Identity
09/15/17
Ginger
And the Issue of Kissing
08/30/17
Essay with No Words
But Look At My Eyes
08/21/17
Me and My Shrink
Dealing With What Drives Me
08/16/17
Ti Ti and I
A Most Haunting Relationship
08/04/17
Oppie
The Scientist and the Philosopher
07/17/17
Just Drop Me Off
And Ginger’s Toy Dog
07/14/17
Rage, Rage...
Against the Pissing Pug
07/10/17
What Did I Learn...
From Vinegar Joe
07/05/17
Frobisher’s Quests
The Northwest Passage and Gold
05/31/17
The Hauntings of Hachikō and Bobby…
And the Haunting of My Gingers
05/24/17
Bridge Builder or Wall Builder
A Clear Choice for Donald the Dumb
05/22/17
To Become…
What You Might Have Been
04/28/17
Getting It Together…
An Avenue to Acquiring Dreams
04/26/17
The Meaning of Life
It Is All About Fighting the Good Fight for Others
04/19/17
Life Is a Bowl of Cherries
Or the Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men
04/14/17
Chick Magnet
And the Hauntings
03/31/17
The Hauntings
About Bobby and the Gingers
03/27/17
On Riding to Samara
Then and Now....
03/10/17
Invictus
Thank You, Mrs. Davis
03/06/17
A Dog's Purpose
The Person's Purpose
03/03/17
Robert the Bruce
I'll Drink to Him!
02/17/17
Ginger, Socks, and Poe
Finding Lenore....
02/13/17
The Meaning of Ginger
The Winter Solstice
02/01/17
A Lesson of Life
Learned from a Cockroach
01/04/17
Ginger, the Dances, and the Lady
It Is All About Determination
01/02/17
FLASH!!!
We Have More Time This Year.
12/30/16
I'm Hanging My Lantern
For All To See
12/23/16
Mentor Tell You Something About You
The Value of Post-it Notes
12/09/16
Moh Moh's Email
Big Dreams Never Run Smooth
12/02/16
Live While Dying
Rather Than Die While Living
11/28/16
Deplorable...
Defining the Definition
11/25/16
Roll Me Up
I Am Free to be Me at 73
11/18/16
Tom Brokaw...
Another Dancer
11/16/16
The Lady, Bobby, and Bagan
Triangulation Process
11/14/16
On the Road Again...
Like a Gypsy
11/07/16
The Lady
And the Peacock
11/04/16
Dostoyevsky Danced with Death
As a Result, Became a Great Writer.
11/02/16
The Value of Grandchildren
Links to the Past and Future
10/31/16
Resurrecting Dashed Dreams
By Continuing to Dream
10/17/16
A Bridge Too Far
Isn't Always the Case
10/14/16
Death Teaches
While You Dance
10/12/16
What a Difference a Few Years Makes
If You Are Joisting with Windmills
10/10/16
GiGi's Psychoanalysis
Me and My Hauntings
09/23/16
The Fighting Téméraire
Explained My Nostalgia to Me
09/21/16
The Donald as the Dark Knight
He Ain't Don Quixote
09/19/16
Why Do I Care?
More to the Point, Why Doesn't Everyone Care?
09/16/16
Confucius Say,
"Petty Man Understands Profit"
09/14/16
Moh Moh Spoke
And She Sounded Like Don Quixote
09/09/16
Return to Myanmar
Dream Big
09/02/16
Rediscovering the Past...
Eleanor Roosevelt
08/31/16
The Meaning Behind the Man
The Man of La Mancha
08/29/16
Trying and Failing...
Is Better than Failing without Trying
08/26/16
Listening to My Mentors
And Dreaming Impossible Dreams
08/19/16
The Terrorism Trifecta
Three More Dances with Death
08/12/16
The Kiss
From Life to Death
08/08/16
We Must Address Conservativism...
For Two Essential Reasons
08/05/16
Bobby Kennedy
Still Reaches Out to Us.
07/29/16
My Love Letters
They Must Be Written
07/22/16
We Shall Overcome
A Belief Amid Darkness
07/18/16
Last Words
Or Don Quixote's Joists with Windmills
07/04/16
Talking to a Tree
Growing in a Silo
06/24/16
The Angel Spoke...
And I Listened.
06/10/16
The Thinkers Three
Jack, Owen, and Me
06/06/16
The Advice of Master Kong
Enjoy Life by Not Working
05/30/16
Master Kong Said...
Don't Remember Being Wronged
05/16/16
Morphing of the Flu with Polio
A Strange Juxtaposition
04/29/16
The Third Dance
Apparently Was a Misstep
04/27/16
The Relationship Between Death and Life
Death Can Cause Us to Live Life
04/25/16
I am Don Quixote
But I Am Not from La Mancha
04/15/16
Maude Adams
Found Somewhere in Time
04/13/16
In My Life
I'll Never Lose Affection for People and Things
04/11/16
Christopher Reeve
Another Dancer Who Could Also Fly
04/08/16
Worthless Windmills
Time Will Tell Their Worth
04/01/16
Learning from My Mentor
A Knight-Errant On His Deathbed
03/28/16
I Want to Have Dinner for Two
A Date and Someone Who Has Done the Dance
03/23/16
Einstein's Other Theory
From a Genius
03/18/16
Could I Have This Dance...
For the Rest of My Life?
03/11/16
What Drives Me?
And the Answer Is....
03/07/16
On Seeing the Light
Chuck, Paul, and Me
03/04/16
My Casablanca Party
Morphed Into My La Mancha Party
02/29/16
Two Roads in the Wood
Choose Wisely
02/26/16
The Art of Beating the Grim Reaper
Follow Randy Pausch's Example
02/24/16
Grave or No Grave
That is the Question
02/22/16
Best of Times, Worst of Times
It Is Your Choice; Choose Wisely
02/19/16
Buddha's Strange Parable...
Which We Need to Understand
02/15/16
The Value of Dreaming
About My List of Dulcineas
02/12/16
The Third Dance...
Maybe or Maybe Not
02/08/16
Somewhere in Time
The Importance of Memories
02/04/16
The Drinkable Book
I Wish I Had One While in Indochina
02/03/16
Another Dancer
David Hume
02/01/16
Revitalizing My Brain
After Winding Up in ICU
01/25/16
Dreams will come to you....
If You Are True to Your Quest
01/22/16
A Pit Stop Can Be Our Destination
Don't Miss Your Destiny
01/20/16
Miguel Cervantes
As Don Quixote
01/18/16
"I'm Dying, and I'm Having Fun."
Randy Pausch is Correct
01/15/16
The Little Match Girl
And The Golden Statue
01/11/16
The Gift of an Angel
It is More About My Feelings
01/06/16
New Year
New Booty
01/01/16
Going to Hell in a Handbasket
And the Tibetan Mask
12/14/15
Doing the Dance Again
How to Address Both New Dances
12/11/15
I Know Who I Am...
And Have Found Two People Who Understand Me
12/04/15
Responses to Paris
Both Are Vital
11/25/15
What a Feeling
And It Is a Great Feeling
11/20/15
Pandora Provides Hope...
Don Quixote Provides Determination
11/09/15
Don Quixote
Then and Now
11/04/15
Dr. Marchand Knows Medicine Well...
And He Knows Life Well Also
11/2/15
Doubling Down...
To Make Dreams Come True
10/19/15
The Old Pine Table
An Object of Renewal and Rebirth
10/14/15
It's Confession Time...
And It Isn't Sunday
10/09/15
The Mahogany Bench
A Place for Dreaming....
10/07/15
The Right to Live
And the Right to Die
10/05/15
Squirt's Observations of Her Papa
A Modern Day Eppie's Reflection
10/02/15
The Little Wooden Box
An Updated Pandora's Box
09/30/15
Collecting Coins
A Tradition Continues
09/28/15
A Great Dancer with Death
A Sobering Experience
09/21/15
Putting the Pieces Together
The Joy of Coming of Age
09/18/15
The Tulip Pitcher
A Picture of Springtime
09/16/15
The Felt Picture
A Picture of Hopefulness
09/09/15
A Second Look at Life
Toward the End of Life
09/07/15
From Whence Does the Spark Come?
The Creative Act of Pondering
08/24/15
The Value of Pain
Or How to Retrieve the Torpedo
08/21/15
A Man with a Mission...
Sinking a German U-boat
08/12/15
Dinner with GiGi
The Socratic Method of an Older Woman
07/17/15
What Makes Me Tick
Finally, an Explanation
07/12/15
What Matisse Taught Me Years Ago,
Which I Finally Fully Understand
07/10/15
Alan Seeger
And His Dance with Death
07/04/15
What I Learned About Life...
From Facing Down the Dragon
06/29/15
Wading Through the Water of Life
Advice by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
06/24/15
Career Opportunity...
Being a Gladiator
06/19/15
The Benefit of Problems
Or the Only Means to Success
06/08/15
Cancer and Crabs
Strange History that They Both Share
06/05/15
Slaughterhouse-Five
Vonnegut's Dance with Death
06/01/15
Dancing with Death
Allows You to Live
05/22/15
It Is About How You Lead Your Life
Start With Refining Words
05/11/15
Steve Jobs and Charles Dickens
How to Avoid the Ghosts
05/08/15
Nepal Then
And Now
05/03/15
The Value of Writing
It Forces You To Remember
05/01/15
"We Get Old Too Soon...
And Wise Too Late"
04/27/15
Booth Died 150 Years Ago Today
How Has America Changed?
04/26/15
Fertilizing Daffodils
But in the Meantime....
04/24/15
How Do We Learn?
The Lessons in Learning
04/13/15
"Live as if You Were to Die Tomorrow."
"Learn as if You Were to Live Forever."
04/06/15
Lead Death as You Dance with Death
It Will Change Your Life
03/24/15
Some People Feel the Rain
Others Just Get Wet.
03/16/15
The Value of Walls
Brick Walls Prove Your Desire.
03/13/15
Experience
Redefining the Word
03/05/15
My Head Fake
During My Last Lecture
02/03/15