Levine's Life Lessons

        College always seems to be a time when reason flies out the window faster than tuition leaves a parent’s wallet...

My brother Bruce turned 45 on the night of a terrible rainstorm. There were hurricane-like winds, severe flooding, and many trees got knoc...

Robert Moses, the architect of many of the scenic roads on Long Island, probably never envisioned that his roads would ...

                          Long Island, the name, sounds so tranquil, but don’t be fooled, because road rage can happen anywhere....

A few years ago, I was driving my car in Corona, New York when all of a sudden my allergies started acting up, and I desperately needed a ti...

         Several years ago when I was but a child, we were once again returning home from the Catskills to Long Island in the Ram...

          Since the 1950’s families have enjoyed summers in the Catskill mountains of New York. People often stayed at bu...

          They say that some things are the spice of life. Well,  occasionally  they can also be too spicy.  Two examples in particular...

    Sometimes I feel like I never left high school. Considering that I’ve worked as a High School teacher for many years, in effec...

Milk is a great food, some say the perfect one, others blame it for many allergies, inflammation, etc., but it can certainly be enjoyed out...

In 1988 I spent three weeks traveling through Spain and Portugal with my friend Bruce. To get back home to America we d...

                             I’ve done many bad things when drunk. I’ve peed in closets thinking they were bathrooms, and not remembe...

                    I used to live in Queens, NY and back then I had a Shoprite supermarket later to be replaced by an organic Kor...

               Several years ago,  I spent a semester of college at Tel Aviv University. One day, I decided that I needed to d...

I have visited Key West, Florida many times times. It’s a great place to get drunk, indulge in anything with a key lime, vis...

          Today's my mother's birthday, and although birthdays are generally considered happy occasions especially when we are yo...

     Being that this is my first blog, I feel a bit overwhelmed.  In some ways it's like my job as a high school  teacher...