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"The Good Life" is asking men of the 21st century, What does your "good life" look like? Weekly themes, new content daily. Follow us here on The Good Men Project and on Twitter @GMPGoodLife.

The Best Man Money Could Buy

May 21, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP Leave a Comment

best man wedding, best man, friendships, male friendships, men, manhood, what makes a best man, goodness, good men, The Good Life, men weddings, grooms

Ernie R writes to The Good Life of two best men: his own, and himself.

Filed Under: Best Men, Featured Content, Men Over 50, Platonic Relationships, The Good Life Tagged With: Best Man, best man wedding, chronic illness, depression, Friendships, Good Men, goodness, Grooms, honor, how to be a best man, how to be a good friend, integrity, long friendships, male friendships, manhood, marriage, men, men weddings, men's friendships, secret to long relationships, supporting friends, The Good Life, what makes a best man

What Every Man Should Know… About Cooking: 6/8

May 16, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP Leave a Comment

feeding the family, feeding the kids, cooking for kids, cooking for the family, family dinners

Do you know the way to your own heart? Men who cook and write wanted.

Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: calls for submissions, consumption, cooking, cooking for kids, cooking for the family, cuisine, domesticity, eating, family dinners, feeding the family, feeding the kids, Food, home cooking, love languages, manly food, men who cook

My Not So Secret Vice: 6/1

May 9, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP Leave a Comment

hobbies, habits, vices, obsessions, bad habits, calls for submissions, men who write, The Good Life

It’s not exactly criminal. So why do you hide the source of your joy?

Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: bad habits, calls for submissions, habits, Hobbies, men who write, obsessions, The Good Life, vices

When Bad People Do Good Things: 5/25

May 2, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP 12 Comments

evil people doing good, caught being nice, bad people do good, why do bad people do good things, ethics and morals, values, contradictions, ambiguity, multitudes, evil men do, calls for submissions

Sometimes, what makes us do evil is easier to understand than the reasons why we choose to do good.

Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: ambiguity, bad people do good, calls for submissions, caught being nice, contradictions, ethics and morals, evil men do, evil people doing good, multitudes, values, why do bad people do good things

Do Not Attempt: 5/18

April 25, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP Leave a Comment

daredevils, thrill seekers, testosterone, proving yourself, being a badass, risking your life to be cool, stupid things teenage boys do, calls for submissions

There’s always some new stunt teenage boys are threatening their lives to perform … what stupid thing have you considered doing?

Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: being a badass, butt chugging, calls for submissions, cinnamon snorting, daredevils, dares, Jackass, proving yourself, risking your life to be cool, stunts, stupid things teenage boys do, testosterone, thrill seekers

First Responders: 5/11

April 18, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP Leave a Comment

first responders, EMTs, EMS, emergency responders, 911, firefighters, medical personnel, first aid, Red Cross, first responder training, rescue workers, disposability of men, heroes, call for submissions, men's stories, men's lives, The Good Men project, The Good Life

How have you prepared to respond in an emergency?

Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: 9/11, Call for submissions, confidence, courage, disposability of men, emergency responders, EMS, EMTs, firefighters, first aid, first responder training, first responders, heroes, mastery, medical personnel, men's lives, men's stories, physical risk taking, Red Cross, rescue workers, risk-taking, skill, The Good Life, The Good Men Project

#51:The Man in the Cowboy Hat

April 16, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP 10 Comments

The Man in the Cowboy Hat, Boston Marathon, bombs, Patriots Day, heroes, fathers, Iraq War, War on Terror

Two senseless tragedies, one heroic father: Carlos Arredondo.

Filed Under: 100 Acts of Male Goodness, Breaking Stories, Good Feed Blog, The Good Life Tagged With: #RealFatherhood, bombs, Boston Marathon, boston marathon casualty, Carlos Arredondo, double amputee, fatherhood, fathers, heroes, heroism, Iraq war, Patriots' Day, The Man in the Cowboy Hat, war on terror

I Come From: Three Essays from Venice High School Students

April 13, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP 2 Comments

young male writers, young men who write, young men, high school boys, boys, poetry, pride, PEN USA

Marcus Anderson, Fernando Garcia, and Steve Miramontes are three young men who know where they come from.

Filed Under: Poetry by Kids, The Good Life Tagged With: African American History, angelenos, black culture, Black History, Black pride, Boys, california, crime, Families, gang violence, heritage, high school boys, homeless youth, Los Angeles, marijuana, PEN USA, poetry, pride, violence, writing prompts, young male writers, young men, young men who write, young writers

Best Men: 5/4

April 11, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP Leave a Comment

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What makes your best male friend a good best man?

Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: Bachelor Parties, Best Man, best man and groom, best man duties, best man responsibilities, Call for submissions, groom, Grooms, groomsmen, honeymoon, husbands to be, married men, men and weddings, men marriage, men's friendships, The Good Life, The Good Men Project, wedding etiquette, wedding toasts, Weddings

Why I Love Black Men – Chris’ Story

April 8, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP 2 Comments

Chris, a friend of GMP contributor Billy Johnson II, gives his take on why he loves his friends.

Filed Under: Dr. Bill, On Race, Platonic Relationships, The Good Life Tagged With: Billy Johnson II, Black males, black men, black men's friendships, brotherhood, brotherly love, college friendships, fraternity brothers, fraternity life, male friendship, what i love about black men, why i love black men, young black men

Why I Love Black Men – Joe’s Story

April 8, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP 1 Comment

Billy Johnson II’s friend, Joe, joins in on the conversation and explains why he loves black men and the brotherhood that he shares.

Filed Under: Dr. Bill, On Race, Platonic Relationships, The Good Life Tagged With: Billy Johnson II, Black American men, black male, Black males, black men, black men's friendships, brotherhood, brotherly love, college life, fraternity brothers, fraternity life, friendship, male friendship, Phi Beta Sigma, what i love about black men, why i love black men

Quitting: 4/27

April 4, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP Leave a Comment

quitting, success, self help, better life, The Good Life

It’s just not true that quitters never win.

Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: better life, Divorce, dropping out, giving up, graduation, leaving, quitting, retiring, self-help, success, The Good Life, winning

Sleeping Together: The Good Life’s Top Ten in March

April 3, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP Leave a Comment

making love, sleeping together, having sex, sex workers, call girls, prostitutes, marriage, sex parenthood, sex education, Top Ten, The Good Life

Readers of The Good Life flock to the truth about sleeping together, and what we really want from women.

Filed Under: Lists, The Good Life Tagged With: call girls, caught by kids, college savings, dating, friend zone, having sex, intimacy, love relationships, making love, marriage, men in therapy, porn, prostitutes, self-help, sex education, sex parenthood, sex workers, sleeping together, The Good Life, top ten, yoga pants

What Does It Mean to Be a Man? U of Calgary Students Respond

April 2, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP 4 Comments

men, manhood, masculinity, University of Calgary men, students manhood, young men feminism, feminism masculinity, men's studies, The Good Life

How do students feel about manhood and masculinity today?

Filed Under: Featured Content, Men and Masculinity, Quarter-Life Crisis, The Good Life Tagged With: beauty, character, Communications students masculinity, dating, equal rights, feminine men, femininity masculinity, feminism masculinity, feminist goals, future SAHDs, Gender equality, gender stereotypes, heroes, history, Homer Simpson, human behavior, identity, James Bond, justin bieber, Lord Byron Batman, male dominated professions, male stereotypes, man code, Man up, manhood, marketing masculinity, masculine heroes, masculinity, men, men's studies, modern heroes, philosophy students masculinity, relationships, students manhood, The Gauntlet, The Good Life, traditional masculinity, University of Calgary men, War, young men feminism

Marijuana: 4/20

April 1, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP Leave a Comment

marijuana legalization, marijuana use, medical marijuana, war on drugs, pot, weed

What does marijuana mean to you?

Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: 4/20, addiction, counterculture, drug rehabilitation, drug use, gateway drug, getting high, Hip-Hop, hippies, libertarian values, making weed legal, marijuana, marijuana legalization, marijuana use, medical marijuana, parenting and marijuana, party culture, pot, pot smoking, progressive values, smoking weed, stories about smoking weed, teen drug use, victimless crimes, war on drugs, weed, youth culture

“They Want”: A 17 Year Old Boy on His Future

March 31, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP 7 Comments

anarchy, protest, teenagers, rage against the machine

This Venice High School senior provokes with his response to the question, what do you want from your life?

Filed Under: Poetry by Kids, Teenage Kicks Tagged With: Anarchy, anti authority, high school, injustice, police corruption, protest, protest poetry, Rage Against The Machine, smoking marijuana, teen drug use, teenagers

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