May is Mental Health Awareness Month.

Whether you realize it or not, most of us have been touched by someone battling mental health issues.

Crestview High School and Baker School now have their new head football coaches. In reality, the searches ended right where they started.

Both schools already had their head coaches on staff, one might even suggest that Thomas Grant had been groomed for the Crestview job and Barry Gardner for the Baker job.

I am a sports guy. I played youth league sports as a kid and in high school I was a member of the football and track teams at Gulf Breeze.

That’s not to say I didn’t have interest in other things. I sang in a youth choir and I was a member of the Gulf Breeze High chorus my freshman year.

Murphy’s Law was hitting me from every side Thursday night. If you aren’t familiar with Murphy’s Law, it states, “If it can go wrong it will, and at the worst possible time.”

And honestly, there wasn’t a worse time for things to go wrong as I prepared to cover my first high school basketball game in six years. 

I’ll never forget March 24, 2016. That day forever change my life when, without warning, I lost my job as the sports editor of the News Bulletin.

I’m not ashamed to say I cried a lot that day. I cried for myself and for the athletes.