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This week started my 4th year coaching high school tennis. I never played tennis in high school; tennis was for the rich kids who had taken lessons their whole lives. In high school, I would watch the tennis players with their white clothes as if they were rock stars....

I wasn’t blessed in the family department. A father who couldn’t keep a job and was violent after drinking Lucky Lager Beer (I did the puzzles in the cap) and generic vodka that smelled like rubbing alcohol, a mother who cried looking out the window drinking the same...

Everyone sees them on the weekends, those crazy 100s or 1000s of runners who close off your streets and make you wait impatiently in your car holding up traffic. I know your first thought, “get out of my way, I have somewhere to go,” then your second thought, “how...

Anything in pain that I need to know about?” I found myself saying to a client I hadn’t seen in a week who does extreme things and tweaks shoulders, her back, and other things. “Well I have this tiny twinge in my back from moving a box this weekend.” I watch her move...

A friend of mine asked me to come watch her daughter’s high school basketball game. The coach was screaming and yelling and pointing, the girls looked confused and then Wham my friend’s daughter threw up a basketball for a basket and the basketball didn’t even touch...

“He is so fat, it is disgusting. Why can’t he just stop putting food in his mouth?” “Have you seen how much weight she gained after her pregnancy? Did she just give up?” “I think my Mother-in-Law must be a closet eater, I mean how does someone get to be that size?”...

We see obese people every day, and most of us stare and criticize. Reality TV has made obesity an amusement for us to watch as in My 600lb Life, The Biggest Loser, My Big Fat Fabulous Life, etc. But obesity is lots of things and amusing isn’t one of them. Comments I...