In the early 1990's, while a young assistant college basketball coach at Paul Smith's College in Northern New York State, our starting shooting guard was shot to death on the streets of NYC. A random drive by act of senseless violence that stole from a family and nation. Brian, or Bezo as we called him, was more than a great player. He was a great man. Kind, low keyed, and great sense of humor. Our entire team was rocked; Tiny, Twin, John, Todd and the others. This was

Greetings my dear friends. I'm going to start this post a little raw but hang with me. It will end well. Many of you know I'm the Executive Director of the HeartSupport Foundation (www.heartsupport.com), an organization intent on CHANGING an atmosphere that has promoted suicide as an option; that there is no way out of addiction; that says gang/gun violence is just part of our national fabric; that says human trafficking too underground for us to do something about. Collect

I'm not a fan of conversations that start with "I know you are busy but". For some reason being called busy gives me the feeling like I am over-committed. That somehow haven't stewarded my time well and hence am feverishly working to catch up to an over abundance of saying yes. So I correct the "I know your are busy" statement with "I'm not busy, I"m intentional", relaying to the listener that I have a super power of time management. But as intentional as I think I am, I st