A January 2026 post mentioned community service activities of New Haven's Wilbur Cross HS boys basketball team.

With the season now over, my son--a senior--has concluded his competitive career, which started in kindergarten in New Haven's Parks and Recreation League.

For the Cross HS team, this season was mixed, but there was significant resilience and some key victories as a young team grew toward the post-season this year and the promise of a more successful season in 2026-27.  Cross played a demanding schedule; opponents included both West Haven and Staples HS, which were the finalists in last night's Division I state championship game (West Haven won in triple OT).

Until the Division 1 state semi-finals, Connecticut's best team was Notre Dame of West Haven, like West Haven HS a Southern CT Conference rival of teams like Hillhouse HS and Cross HS. Led by (New Haven resident) Abdou Toure, who was named CT's Player of the Year for the second straight season, Notre Dame narrowly missed winning its third consecutive state title.

Cross played Notre Dame and Hillhouse twice each, among other challenging opponents.

My wife and I compiled a homemade video of our son's highlights, including footage against Notre Dame and Hillhouse, for example.

Believing universities unfairly maligned, I applied the example of Harvard and its Kennedy School (HKS), as our class's 25th reunion approaches. Writing this opinion piece was an occasion to recall faculty and fellow students--now alumni/ae-who make the world better.

The piece appears at the Connecticut Mirror and on Medium. 

One of the opinion pieces of mine that the Connecticut Mirror has published over the years is a discussion of "the mentoring circle"--with reference to a young man (Travis J. Bristol) who was my mentee before, two decades later, becoming an Advisor to Connecticut CASA.

Madeline Papcun of the Connecticut Mirror profiled me in 2023 as part of a series of features on viewpoints contributors to the Mirror.

The New Haven Independent published my brief write-up about the Wilbur Cross HS boys basketball team's community service activity, volunteering at a local food pantry.

This is the first of multiple such activities planned for this season, by Head Coach Kevin Walton and the team.

(I am a parent of one of the team's players, a senior co-captain.)

I recently published an opinion piece in various outlets, including Hearst CT Media newspapers, the Connecticut Mirror,  Medium, and the Good Men Project.

The piece includes references to the ABCD Study and Lisa Damour, Ph.D., among others.