Brett Farve and Drew Brees: My lastest inspirations

To be candid, I'm not sure if this is a good idea and yet here I go. I keep thinking of things I've heard in my work: leaders go first, without risk there is not reward, and etc., and etc. (There are a lot of those one liners when your work involves leadership development and management training 90 percent of the time.)

So here's a new blog. Not sure anyone will read it, and I think I might be OK with that. Here's the thing - the title is kinda of out there. Might even conjure pictures that are borderline TMI. But I love me some alliteration so until someone can come up with a better one for me, it's staying. Now that we have that out of the way, how about a purpose statement and an explanation of this entry's headline? Splendid. Let's do that.

At conception, the purpose of this blog is two look at fraternity - specifically the undergraduate, collegiate kind - through a different lens and to help new medias largest impact group (moms) think about fraternity, hopefully in a purposeful and positive way. There's nothing I can do to that end when stupid happens, but the rest of the time, that's the plan.

Why mention Brett Farve? Because after more than 10 years working professionally in the fraternity/sorority industry, I'm retiring. I, in no way, intend to imply that I am the f/s equivalent of his stature in his industry. It's simply his now infamous retirement(s) that I reference. Who knows if this is permanent for me. But it's the right decision today for me, and for my family. And coming out of retirement is always an option. Brett proved that. Besides, the only people who can legitimately retire at my age are professional athletes.

And Drew Brees? Well a fell f/s comrade wrote on his Fraternal Thoughts blog a couple of weeks ago about how Drew is the epitome of fraternal values in action, even at his age and in his profession. (Read: no longer a college students, not working in f/s affairs.) So as I begin my new job as a stay-at-home-mom to the world's most perfect fraternity legacy, I have been thinking about how I can continue in that world. How to stay connected and committed to f/s affairs?

And, thus, as a project to keep me busy (as if the 7 month old who's pretty interested in learning to crawl won't) and a way to stay committed this little blog project came to mind. Because from before my son, S, entered the world we already were talking about his connections to fraternity. I'm guessing that's approximately 18.6 years before most people do that.

So, I wonder - in my best Carrie Bradshaw voice over voice - do I want my son to join a fraternity?

Thinking that working through and talking about fraternity in this little side project of a writing exercise might help me answer that. Good news is I have 17.5 years to decide.