The Problem with Drive by Mentoring

I grew up on a farm. One of my chores in junior and senior high was milking a cow early morning and late afternoon. It was our family’s source for milk, butter and cheese. Cow milking today involves machines and computers. Cow milking—the old fashioned way—involved an edgy cow, a three legged stool and a stainless steel milk pale to catch the milk squeezed from an udder.

I was not a very patient teenager. I was always in a big hurry to get the boring chore over with so I could shoot hoops befo...