Sometimes I receive a fortune like today's and I struggle to accept what it says at face value. It says, "Nothing in the world is difficult if one sets his mind to it." Do you believe it to be true? I can tell you with absolute certainty that I've set my mind to many things in my life that were quite difficult.  How about you?

In most cases, brands do an excellent job of sending a heartfelt message to the victims, and they are welcomed and well received. Sometimes however, a brand will mistake their best opportunity for sending a brief message of condolences, and instead, send what is perceived as an ill conceived, poorly timed advertisement, that attempts to do little more than capitalize on the tragedy of others.

If there's something at which I am very good, very practiced, and very dedicated, it's being a Red Sox fan. Although the Boston Red Sox had finally defeated the Yankees, the great rivalry with New York has continued... until yesterday.

Today, I would like to shine a light on the unsung heroes and uncelebrated patriots of that first day of battle. Very few history books disclose the fact that some of the seventy-seven men who took a stand against the British in Lexington were black men, both slave and free.