The Good Men Project Content Calendar

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

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

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My Not So Secret Vice: 6/1

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

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

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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

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

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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

Coaches: 5/25

April 28, 2013 By the Editors 4 Comments

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Outside of our fathers, they are most often the men who have had the most influence on us. We want to hear from you about the coaches who influenced you—for good and bad—when you were growing up.

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Filed Under: Sports, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: coaches, Mike Rice, Rutgers University, The Good Men Project

Do Not Attempt: 5/18

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

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

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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

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How have you prepared to respond in an emergency?

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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

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?

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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

Quitting: 4/27

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

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It’s just not true that quitters never win.

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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

Marijuana: 4/20

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

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What does marijuana mean to you?

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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

The Ethics of Writing about Living People: 4/13

March 28, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP 1 Comment

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Who owns a story?

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Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: blogging, Call for submissions, ethics, interviews, journalism, lives of famous people, male writers, Memoir, men who write, nonfiction, press, The Good Life, The Good Men Project

100 Words from Men on Love: 4/6

March 21, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP 2 Comments

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Love is in the air. A call for submissions.

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Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: act of love, boys in love, Call for submissions, coming of age, flash nonfiction, kissing, love writing, male desire, male love, male writers, marriage, masculine desire, masculine love, men in love, men who write, nature, romance, Sex and Relationships

Sleepovers: 3/30

March 14, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP Leave a Comment

Slumber party! A call for submissions.

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Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: calls for submissions, college life, dating, friendship, kids, kids parties, my place or yours, Parenthood, parties, sexuality, sleep, sleeping over, slumber parties, spending the night, teen parties, teenagers

My First Drink: 3/23

March 7, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP 6 Comments

Was your first drink memorable?

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Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: alcoholism, calls for submissions, drinking, first drink, men's stories, prohibition, rites of passage, stories, The Good Life, turning 21

Puberty: 3/16

February 28, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP 1 Comment

Like puberty isn’t bad enough, but some people have to go and write about it.

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Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: adolescence, adolescent boys, Call for submissions, growing up, manhood, maturity, mentoring boys, parenting boys, rites of passage, teenage boys, teenagers

Male Toughness: 3/9

February 21, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP 3 Comments

Do men need toughening up, or are we tough enough already?

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Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: agency, calls for submissions, endurance, Iron Man, male stereotypes, manhood, masculinity, muscle, power, stoicism, strength, tough guy, virility

Funny Sex Stories: 3/2

February 14, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP 3 Comments

I want someone I can laugh in bed with.

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Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: calls for submissions, embarrassing sex stories, funny sex stories, funny sex story, laugh during sex, laughing in bed, when sex goes funny

Princess Culture: 2/23

February 7, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP 5 Comments

Is daddy’s princess brave and good?

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Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: cult of femininity, dads and princesses, damsel in distress, Disney princesses, father and daughters, fatherhood, fathers and girls, female stereotypes, femininity, gender roles, girls, media princess, parenting, princess culture, princesses, super bowl ads, Superbowl ads

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Men’s Global Healthcare is Woefully Underfunded

Despite men being statistically less healthy than women, global health funding has been largely focused on women.

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American Minister Timothy Murphy Joins Gitmo Prisoners in Hunger Strike

More than 100 days have passed since the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay started, and with no progress being made, an American minister has joined the strike.

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Peace Corps to Place Same Sex Couples

Peace Corps Deputy Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet today announced that the agency will begin accepting applications from same-sex domestic partners who want to serve together as volunteers overseas.

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