Brad Kelstrom has never had a male “buddy,” and he hopes his son won’t be able to say the same.
‘Real’ Masculinity: On Being the Boy in a Playground of Girls and The Other F-Word
February 7, 2012 By 7 Comments
A View From the Bleachers
January 8, 2012 By 3 Comments
Randy Steingberg reflects on his life as a subsiding Red Sox fan, and the love and admiration that can’t be found in a ballpark.
#5: Eyes
January 5, 2012 By 4 Comments
“The blue of the eyes is so intense it almost seems like they are from an alternative universe.”
Learning to Love the Lines on Your Face
December 20, 2011 By 7 Comments
For Bruce Tretter, getting older shouldn’t affect how you treat every day.
I Have Taught 3,625 Students
December 13, 2011 By 1 Comment
Carl Bosch can wish extravagant success for his former students, but all he can hope for is basic goodness.
Tapping and Counting My Way Toward Chivalry
October 2, 2011 By 4 Comments
As a child, Sam Magee developed his own code of conduct, the Samurai Code. But he has learned that perhaps the code wasn’t as ideal as he had seen it.
An End to Innocence
September 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
“It’s not that I want back all my innocence, just the joy of losing it again” – Dawes, “Strangers Getting Stranger”
The Genesis of Manhood
September 4, 2011 By 6 Comments
If there’s one film those aspiring to be good men–good fathers and sons–should see this year, it’s Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life.’
The Opposite of “Man” is “Boy,” Not “Woman”
August 23, 2011 By 85 Comments
Masculinity is a performance, Hugo Schwyzer writes, in which men differentiate themselves from boys.
1929, 1941, 2001. On coming of age and hope, despite all
August 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
My daughter is coming of age in a society struggling to overcome its own shortsightedness, greed, and failure. But in her eyes, I see no condemnation and no angst for the future.
Rock Salt Blues
August 19, 2011 By 9 Comments
“I was almost killed by men with shotguns, on a raft, down a river.” Sounds like the start of a blues song to us.
Unhappy, Defeated Boys Can Become Happy, Powerful Men
August 16, 2011 By 7 Comments
Hugo Schwyzer uses memories of his awkward, unhappy, throughly alienated years in middle school as powerful tools for defeating addiction and self-loathing.
Cross-Wired
August 16, 2011 By 3 Comments
As our reliance on the artificial increases, Scot Allen wonders what that means for our future survival.
Bullying the Bullies
August 9, 2011 By 2 Comments
Owen Marcus was tired of being bullied, and when he finally fought back, he earned both self-respect and the respect of the other boys.
Have You Really Grown Up?
August 2, 2011 By 2 Comments
Does everybody stay pretty much the same as we age? Or does it just seem this way to those closest to us?
Fatherly Appreciation
July 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Some relationships are built out of wood, sweat, and blood.
Vocalyze
“When I was in a men’s group in 1972, I distinctly remember feeling edgy when we would hug.”
“My son and daughter keep reminding me that things are changing.” The times they are a changin’ (comment and Marco Magnani video cover of Bob Dylan song.)