By Frank Stepnowski
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HealthDownsized: Fishtown Native Tells His Interesting Odyssey With Gastric Sleeve Surgery (Part 2)
After my dangerously close call on the mountain, I started getting very tired all the time, and my concentration was noticeably slipping. Then the daily bloody noses started. Fortunately, my…
Frank Stepnowski | 02/22/2017 -
Health
Downsized: Fishtown Native Tells His Interesting Odyssey with Gastric Sleeve Surgery (Part 1)
Big fella, big man, big Step: genial introductions that preceded handshakes, hugs and reunions. That was me, the big guy, for as long as I can remember. To be…
Frank Stepnowski | 02/16/2017 -
EducationAn Open Letter to Parents and Students as We Go Back to School
Students, let me invite you into my classroom on the first day of school. Every year, after the usual housecleaning of learning names, checking schedules and introducing ourselves, I shut…
Frank Stepnowski | 09/02/2015 -
Family
Our Most Undervalued Resource
My epiphany started with my front door and my washer and ended with me putting a knee brace on a freshman. OK, admit it…you’re curious where the heck this is…
Frank Stepnowski | 10/08/2014 -
Education
CLASH of the TITANS: Some advice on how parents and teachers SHOULD interact (from a guy who is both.)
Hello again everybody! The good folks at The Spirit have taken my bribe…er, liked my work so much that they gave me a chance to follow up my Back to…
Frank Stepnowski | 10/01/2014