Growing up as a real skinny kid, I am very sensitive to the plight of young people unhappy with their physical appearance.  Trust me, it is NO fun to be 16 years old and nervous about taking your shirt off at the beach for fear of being ridiculed later in class.  Kids are brutal.  Add ...

Christmas used to be so fun.  Right after Thanksgiving the stores put up all their lights and trees.  Then the TV shows started.  Classics like “Merry Xmas Charlie Brown,” “Frosty the Snowman,”  and “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.”   And it wasn’t all cartoons.  No sir.  We would watch “A Christmas Carol” (the old black ...