Good afternoon. Like many of you I haven't slept well over the last few nights. I'm writing this at 4.30 Monday morning. I've been awake since 4.15.

On our show we feel our prime directive is to make you laugh and hopefully we do that occasionally in our little program.

But before we get to the regular content of today's show, I felt it important to pause, to pay our respects, to reflect, to acknowledge the grief of so many. There are only

five of us who bring you this show every day, three of us are fathers and we know firsthand the kind of love that comes with bringing

beautiful children into the world.

For those of you who aren't parents, may I simply say that there is no greater and more joyful love in the world.

With great love often comes great pain.

When you care for another person more than yourself, that comes with the territory.

So I didn't feel that it was appropriate to begin today's show without pausing to remember

the lives lost this past Friday in Newtown, Connecticut. I was born and I was raised in Glastonbury,

Connecticut, less than an hour away from Newtown, and Connecticut will always have a special

place in my heart.

I have been unable to stop thinking about this insane tragedy,

but I don't think I'm alone.

I think there are many of us who have had difficulty shaking this horrible

crime from our minds and that is why I wanted to stop for a moment and remember the

lives lost in New Town on Friday, December 14th.

And although for most of us, these were people we did not know,

I hope that you can reflect on these lives

as if they were people close to you. I believe it is time that we begin to change

the way we behave toward one another and perhaps we can start by grieving for

total strangers.

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