My weight fluctuates more than NYC temperatures.  I have struggled with this since I was young.  I wasn’t always a chubby kid though.  I was a tomboy and used to annoy my brother by following him and his friends around.  I climbed and jumped out of trees with them.  I raced against the neighborhood boys in our…

When I was a teacher, we taught the scholars (our students) a mantra.  “No Excuses” was ingrained in them. We expected them to operate by it at all times.  They weren’t allowed to make excuses for not doing their homework, being absent repeatedly, running in the hallways or talking out of turn, among other things….

The Weakest Link  was a show in the US from 2001-2003 (the UK version originated in 2000 and ended in 2012).  The format consisted of nine contestants answering questions in the hopes of earning money for each correct answer.  Yet, at the end of each round, the player that answered a question incorrectly and failed to…