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I’d shared in Stories yesterday, & now a pic here (last slide➡️) that I got to celebrate my buddy Raph from college’s bat mitzvah of his daughter. Pretty special shot of them doing the daddy/daughter dance.  Raph’s a sports guy thru & thru…even, like me, made it his career. Places like ESPN, The Players’ Tribune, …

6/11/2023 People who you can get together with no matter how much time has passed and pick up right where you just left off – those relationships are amongst the greatest gifts you can have Read More »

This is a topic that has to be discussed more…it’s not getting the attn it needs. I’ve shared stories of bullying before many times on this page, & the horrific outcomes – but I haven’t discussed the role some schools are playing (most often not playing) in these tragedies.  Over the last couple of posts …

6/8/2023 NY police probe apparent suicide of bullied 10 year old Read More »

Again – multiple stories happening…trends emerging from them that show a thread – that hopefully I’ll be able to articulate well here & on the slides. 1st we had the announcement that Colts CB Isiah Rodgers was going to be punished by the NFL for gambling multiple times on his OWN team. This comes after …

6/6/2023 One of the most misunderstood aspects of mental health is: how we judge people’s behaviours and condemn them Read More »

This title’s a little misleading after reading the full article – but it’s such an impt msg to understand & share bc of what it means abt our private data & what social companies are doing.  The title insinuates that the charities are KNOWINGLY giving Facebook private data on visitors coming to their websites that …

6/4/2023 UK mental health charities handed sensitive data to Facebook for targeted ads Read More »

Think back to childhood & going to school. Do you not vividly remember breaking a bone (or someone in your class breaking theirs) & everyone would take out a marker & write an encouraging note? At least for my generation, the casts were all white, & we’d sign in colorful markers. Then bc casts were …

6/3/2023 The sad irony of our pain Read More »

I’ve been in this space since the end of 2017, after I fought out of what I call my 2.5 years of hell. At that time, I looked at the messages – ones that were meant to further normalization. They were doing anything but. They were keeping this topic on the fringe, separate. I came/come …

6/1/2023 Every year on June 1st we all say the same thing Read More »

We’ve gotten to know these LIFE Saver fams quite well over this past month. What started w a 3 hr phone call of giving each other the space to share openly abt loved ones, led to the initiative this month, to all share openly, together, so that folks could see a united front of fams …

5/30/2023 Those who love the most are most often the ones who hurt the most Read More »

Since the time we were little kids, Memorial Day has brought abt convos & images of service men & women who paid the ultimate sacrifice: lost their lives defending our countries & our way of life.  As we got older & learned abt war, we began to think of lives lost in places like the …

5/28/2023 On Memorial Day weekend consider this stat: Since 9/11, 4X the number of service members and veterans have died by suicide Read More »

Yesterday we celebrated SameHere Segra Park in Columbia, SC. It was the first minor league baseball team to reach out to us to do programming together – in this case the Single A @colafireflies.  It was also the first chance I had to do an in-person event w my buddy @boombostick86 who played TE in …

5/26/2023 What you went through does not have to be exactly the same as what I went through Read More »

You read this headline & of course gotta ask “what took so long”…we’ve all been seeing this for yrs now. But…better late than never…as our kids lives are at stake w this medium.  As I’ve shared many times, these news stories pop-up & themes then present themselves in other threads & a light bulb goes …

5/24/2023 US Surgeon General: We need to protect kids from social media risks immediately Read More »