Tag: sports

For many years I was a fitness instructor/trainer for different YMCA’s in the Midwest, actively teaching various fitness or aquatics classes three to times times a day for 18 years.  My job was to help others achieve.

Sometimes an event or affair seems to crystalize the spirit of an age. The Dreyfus affair became a symbol of the soul sickness of pre-World War II Europe.

The 6th grader who conquered fear and won my admiration, photo by Eric Blauer

Omar Abdelkader, a student at Northeastern University in Boston, is an observant Muslim but admits that, at least as a kid, he was occasionally seduced by the swish of a perfect jump-shot over the Islamic call to prayer.