Levine's Life Lessons

It's official. It's the one year anniversary of my blog.  With close to five thousand views from all around the world.  To all of t...

I really like the film Patch Adams despite the subsequent deaths of Robin Williams and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I've actually writt...

I work in a men's physical education department. Although, some people call us "gym teachers" which we find derogatory.  Ot...

        As someone who has worked in different schools systems in New York for the past twenty years, I think I am in a position to give adv...

    It's often been said that those who can't do teach, and those who can't teach anything teach gym, but what the haters fail ...

      Even though I am back in New York after a week down south, my skin is still tan and I remember fondly the blue skies of Florida whi...

                 Its 3 a.m. Florida time. I'm resting on the infamous guest bed whose huge bar is slowly making an indentation in my ...

                    Pet peeves.  We've all got them, or at least many of us do.  For example, when did it get so popular to use ...

                     There are morons and then there are oxymorons. Sometimes they are related.   I don't know if any of my readers ...

           I've enjoyed exploring many of Long Island's beautiful rivers.  One in particular the Nissequogue, is my favorite. I...

                Anyone who has seen the film The Butler or The Help knows that sometimes the people who work for us see us as we truly a...

         Rabbi E. told another story about a 2008 girl’s college softball team championship game.   Central Washington University and...

           We spend a lot of time at our jobs.  In many ways they are like a second family.  In my case more like a dysfunctional second ...

                     Several ago when my nieces where about five or six, I was asked if I wanted to go with them to the movies.  I have al...

  Rabbi E. once told us about a time when he went to a Jewish cemetery to help with a burial.  In the past, he has helped...

           The rabbi at my temple has told many memorable sermons over the years. In particular, he usually pulls out all the stops...

     Prank 3: “The Custodian?”:  In my school, students are required to wear gym uniforms with our school’s logo on it.  In the past, w...