Fathered Five

If you can find 11 minutes to watch this, I promise it will be worth your while. It’s a beautifully done short film about…well, something to do with dads and presence.

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That’s the thesis of my latest read, John Eldredge’s The Way of the Wild Heart.
You see, what we have now is a world of uninitiated men. Partial men. Boys, mostly, walking around in men’s bodies, with men’s jobs and families, finances, and responsibilities. The passing on of masculinity was never completed, if it was […]

Not just another “what’s the matter with kids today” post
Not “product” as in a result of something, but product as in marketable commodity. I’m not talking about adolescence, the age. I’m talking about Adolescence, the attitude: rebellion against authority and parental values, the attraction toward badness and poor performance, which Dr. Leonard Sax calls Boys […]

You know those black and white photos taken from about 1870 to 1920? The ones in which no one ever smiles? Now those were some grumpy parents! Not that I blame them—how boring would it be to live in a black and white world? It would be enough to make anybody grumpy. This little […]

This is one of the great scenes in American flim, IMHO. (Followed closely by the one in The Matrix where Keanu Reeves says, shocked, “I know Kung Fu!” Oh, and then followed by the one in T3 where Arnold Schwarzenegger walked through the cemetery with a coffin on his shoulder and a .50 cal machine […]