And so it went on, a lifetime of playing, sharing, and competing against one another.
In a lifetime of playing and coaching baseball, I have found this to be one of the hardest concepts for many to grasp, and perhaps the most important.
Scarlett's previous experience with StarCraft had been strictly online, with a weak laptop and a slow connection, though a lifetime of playing games had hardened her to "people saying stupid stuff," as she told me.
I ask him how many copies of the Incredible Bongo Band's Apache he has worn out, in half a lifetime of playing it for its drumbeat, since the earliest parties at the Black Door club in the South Bronx.
Most pilots attribute kids like Bannister's skills to a lifetime of playing video games and young reflexes.
Then I got a SNES, and a summer holiday of showing up at mates houses with a pad and a copy of SFII (nobody had two SNES pads of their own, come on now) happened and started a lifetime of playing fighting games.
A former Leo football star whose bent-nose bluntness reflects a lifetime of line play, Foster was Leo's football coach, principal and president for more than 40 years before stepping down for health reasons earlier this month.
And a lifetime of violin playing has trained his ear for melodies that ground his lyrics and jostle them into flight.
I had the honor of playing in the Kansas City Royals organization -- they drafted me out of Stanford in 1995 and gave me the opportunity of a lifetime to play pro baseball.
"It's the opportunity of a lifetime to play in the Olympics here and try and get a gold medal," he said.
