Game for a Cause

Today I took a break from music, and went to the UCONN football game. I had a great time! I got to tailgate, hang out with friends, and cheer on a successful team. What more could anyone ask?

A little over one year ago, we lost a passionate and loving friend, Eric Nagrabski. Today was the second annual memorial football game, to celebrate his life with good company, good food, and great team spirit. Today's update is dedicated to Eric, you will not be forgotten.

For more information about Eric, or to contribute to his scholarship fund, please visit: ericscholarship.com.

So...what did you do this summer?

I spent the first half of my summer in Oaxaca, Mexico, as I have been known to do. This summer was particularly exciting because of the projects that we had lined up. In June and July we built six homes for families that live and work in a garbage dump (and I don't mean a nice sanitary dump like the ones we have here in the U.S.) and we started constructing a second children's home in a small village named Cuicatlan. The reason that I thought of this today is that I was going through some photos from the summer and this one stood out. On one of our visits, apparently I decided it would be great to give one of the boys, Jorge, a death hug, and Bryan thought it would be just as entertaining to do the same to me. Good times. It is easy to see from the photo why I continue to spend a lot of my time in Mexico - we have so many laughs and such a good time with these kids. For more information you can visit: www.simplysmiles.org .

Law & Order for brunch

Those of you who know me at all, know that I love courtroom drama. Law & Order is my addiction of choice. I also love sports dramas (the whole underdog thing) but today is all about the law. Yesterday, I was eating brunch in the middle of nowhere Connecticut at a nice place on a lake, and who walks in? Christopher Meloni, a.k.a. Detective Eliot Stabler. I spoke with him for a few seconds (and didn't even stutter!) he was very friendly, and I'm pretty sure that he now considers me one of his closest friends. Have a good day everyone, and if you run into my buddy Chris, tell him I said hello.