Live To Tell Your Story

Here’s my big ask for today: Get vaccinated and wear your mask to slow the latest surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. I know people who are not getting vaccinated and don’t wear masks have their reasons. But as someone who is rebuilding their life after colon cancer and has a young daughter, I’m asking anyone who can get the shot to do it and help us stay healthy.

I also want you to live long enough to have a lot of great stories to share with people who will want or need them. Too many of the people who recently lost their lives or were hospitalized with the Delta variant of the virus were not vaccinated.

Don’t take life for granted. The best thing about recently celebrating my 50th birthday surrounded by people I love was living long enough to enjoy that day. Every day is a blessing, especially if you work in a profession where you are at a higher risk of losing your life or becoming disabled. Or, you enjoy activities like rock climbing, surfing, or driving. Yes, driving.

I am passionate about security, but I’ve always known that at any minute I could face someone who was not afraid to force Judgement Day on my client and take me with them. So, living long enough to share some of the many experiences I’ve had is another great thing about my life right now.

In Rent-A-Cop Reboot, I tell several true stories about situations I faced, and the lessons I learned from them. The Judgement Day scenario? Page 45, also mentioned in the video above. A major lesson from that experience? The power of my faith.

I have faith that there are many Americans out there who care enough about others that they will trust reputable sources of COVID-19 information and do what’s necessary to keep us all safe. I pray that those who don’t get vaccinated or wear a mask will stay away from environments where they may get infected, or infect someone else. Many Americans disagree about these protocols, but non-partisan, scientific evidence shows that they work.

For people healthy enough to be vaccinated who disagree, I hope they will do what needs to be done anyway. Let’s let COVID die down, not hundreds-of-thousands more of us, so there will be enough of us around to argue about later while sharing stories about how we lived through this.

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Another special note about Rent-A-Cop Reboot: Thank You to two Barnes & Noble stores in the Richmond, Virginia, area that now carry the book. They are the Libbie Place store on West Broad Street, and in the Chesterfield Town Center store on Midlothian Turnpike.