Part 5. The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. - Steven Spielberg In the prior 4 posts of this series on My Unlikely Career. A Retrospective, in 4 decades, I really dove down into my background. How I got to where I am today,…
It’s easy to reflect now, but what started that night in March became overwhelming. We fell in love with the team on the pitch, with amazing, young, previously unknown (at least to us) players like Miguel Almiron, Josef Martinez and Yamil Assad, and older veterans I’d heard of but didn’t “know”. The atmosphere at Bobby Dodd started off at an…
If you are a friend on Facebook, you likely saw a post of mine the day that George Michael passed away. As everybody is aware, 2016 was (at least seemingly) a year of tremendous loss, as so many died who were meaningful and influential in our lives. My Facebook post said: "It's bad enough that all my heroes keep dying,…
I tried very hard to not use my own social media timelines or pages for political or societal commentary - but I was as active as my temper and frustrations allowed me to be on other people's comments or posts.