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You’re All Just a Bunch of Boy-Men

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 […]

Why Adolescence is a Product You Don’t Have to Buy

Friday, October 5th, 2007

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 […]

Parenting Advice from My Dad’s Generation

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

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 […]

Sidney Poitier on Being a Good Dad

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

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 […]

How to find time you didn’t know you had

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Quality Time?? I’d settle for time
We know it’s all about time. Our kids need our time, our wives need our time, the lawn needs our time. God forbid I need some time for myself because if I take it, it means one of those other areas gets neglected and damnit, honey, do we have to […]


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