What Makes a Hero in These Times?

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“Heroes are out there every day, all around, everywhere you look.”

A Family Inheritance

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For Lucas Ahlsen, it’s more than a family crest or some coins.

I Don’t Want to Look Like Ted Danson

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I sat staring at myself in the bathroom mirror today. More specifically, I was looking at all the grey hairs that have been springing up all over my head with as much gusto as you’d find emanating out of a High School Cheerleader. “Yep—-they’re multiplying.” I thought. Soon enough, my George Clooney-esque salt and pepper [...]

Sports Columnist Simon Kuper Talks about His Wife’s Book Bringing Up Bébé

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How French Men Figured Out The Secret To Happiness

10 Most Popular Posts on Good-Feed This Week

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Just in case you missed them.

So Long, Jack

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Mark Ellis says goodbye to his family’s aptly-named Jack Russell terrier.

On Men and Victimization

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Wherever there’s a victim, Frederick Marx writes, there’s also a perpetrator.

A Valentine for Karen

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Andrew Cotto remembers the wife of an old friend.

I Bought My 18-Month-Old a Knife

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Niel Vuolo needed something to pass on to his son, so he bought him something sharp.

#41: Words

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“Something had always been different about him.”

More Than A Warrior

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I hope this video prompts you to ask yourself how you can be of service to the fine men and women coming home.

Two from HARD TO SAY, by Ethel Rohan

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“An Irish daughter struggles with her relationship with her mother, who drinks, beats, goes blind, loses her sanity. The stories in this aptly titled book are relentless, full of terror, frighteningly true. Ethel Rohan’s rhythms will get inside you.” —Matt Salesses, Good Men Project Fiction Editor

#39: The Music Man

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“He wakes the girls by singing songs they’ve come to expect every school morning.”

I’ve Been Married for 20 Years, and I Still Don’t Know What I Want to Be When I Grow Up

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Don’t ask Stephen Gosewich to tell you about his dream job. He doesn’t have one.

Man-to-Man With Todd Michael Schultz

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Todd Michael Schultz talks to us about music, family, and manhood.

#34: Abooda

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He is hunting for toads—or, as he calls them, “ABOODA!”