Each month in preparation for our production, I develop a script and line up guest features to create a lively fifteen minutes. Another real joy I have is through the work I do with young people by providing tutoring and general mentoring through the school Key Club and the local Boy's and Girl's Club. Most of the 40 or so children of the Boy's and Girl's Club come from depressed socio-economic backgrounds and need assistance with schoolwork and, more generally, a positive guiding influence in their lives. Most of them live in single-parent families, a situation with which I am thoroughly familiar. I know, I know, it's cheesy and corny, but you have to admit, it is true.
Hard work does pay off.
As a keen observer of all things teenage, I am fully aware of the trials and triumphs through which young people struggle each day, the things that may get in the way of that hard work.