I should have known it was going to be one of those days. The kind of day that made a third grader want to stay home from school. It was raining. The kind of rain that started with the letter ‘r’ as...

This is an installment of Chris Yobb's weekly column "My Two Cents." When I graduated from high school I realized that after all my years of schooling, I became extremely good at one thing: passing a...