Many men are taking more extreme and dangerous steps to maintain their youth
In Dog Years
April 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Robert Levithan’s not sure any more if he’s going to outlive Sophie or if she’s going to outlive him.
Baldly Going Where Few Men Have Gone Before
April 19, 2012 By 9 Comments
Mark Radcliffe thinks the thing you fear most – even if it’s going bald – can actually become your greatest strength.
Tupac Performs at Coachella? Umm… Wha?
April 16, 2012 By 14 Comments
Joanna Schroeder feels Tupac Shakur’s appearance (as a hologram) at Coachella may have officially caused Coachella to jump the shark… Or maybe it made Coachella sort of awesome? Apparently she can’t decide which.
Photoshopping My Neck
April 11, 2012 By 1 Comment
William L. Walker has an ally against the inexorable march of time. It’s called Photoshop.
I Stopped Playing Sports to Keep My Health Insurance
April 6, 2012 By 1 Comment
Robert Steven Williams used to play competitive sports. Now his fears of getting benched by his health insurance have him sidelined.
At Valhalla’s Gates: A Life With Metal
April 5, 2012 By 2 Comments
Male menopause, heavy metal, and Lonesome Dove.
Jamie Reidy Is An Old Man
March 31, 2012 By 6 Comments
For the first time, at the age of 42, Jamie Reidy is struggling with getting older.
Limitless People: Mortality, Fatherhood, and Early Manhood
March 9, 2012 By 1 Comment
Joseph Pereira reflects on having to grow up too fast in the absence of his father, raising twin daughters, and how he finds security in his own sense of self and manhood.
Poem: This Business of Time, of Aging
March 7, 2012 By 1 Comment
Daniel Lee Fee says that growing older is like a white-knuckle ride over Niagara Falls, undertaken by a man old enough to know better.
Three Portraits for Presidents Day
February 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Wolf Pascoe writes: “Lincoln’s greatness was that each day, each punishing day, he became a better man than he’d been the day before.”
Jermaine O’Neal and I Are Getting Old
February 16, 2012 By 1 Comment
“It was in the course of considering O’Neal’s decline that I realized my youth, or what was left of it, had come to an end.”
I Turned 50, Hit a Wall, Fought Like a Steer
February 12, 2012 By 5 Comments
Merv Kaufman approached psychotherapy as he would a real estate scam — kicking and screaming. Fortunately for him, it helped anyway.
All the Lone People
January 31, 2012 By 3 Comments
The Black and Blue Man reflects on people who live and die alone—and wonders how long it would take for someone to find him if that happened to him.
Recovering Her Youth With Duran Duran
December 25, 2011 By 3 Comments
Charlie Capen and his wife learn that you can’t fight your age, but can embrace your youth.
Vocalyze
“I spent years in confusion that led me to ask awkward even wholly inappropriate questions at the wrong moments…”
This is a comment by James on the post “What Happens When We Don’t Teach Our Boys About Sex”.