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Changing Your Perspective on Money Conflicts

April 18, 2013 By Alan Strathman 3 Comments

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem

Filed Under: Business Ethics Tagged With: dating, Divorce, employment, feminism, gender, gender roles, job, manhood, marriage, masculinity, men, money, relationships, The Good Life, women, Work

An Acquired Taste

April 16, 2013 By Kendall Ruth 5 Comments

Lone Star State stories, My First Drink, my first beer, Texas, The Good Life, The Good Men Project

Mommas, don’t let your babies grow up to drink bad beer.

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Stay Passionate to Prevent Failure

April 15, 2013 By David Neagle 4 Comments

You Can’t Buy Security by “Fitting In” Anymore

Filed Under: Business Ethics Tagged With: business, change, david neagle, employment, entrepreneur, innovation, job, manhood, masculinity, men, Mentor, neagle, success, The Good Life, Work

A Prisoner’s Message to Youth on Gang Membership

April 14, 2013 By Spoon Jackson Leave a Comment

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After Rosanne Cash’s visit, Spoon Jackson receives an opportunity to speak to troubled youth from within prison.

Filed Under: Poet Behind Bars, The Good Life Tagged With: education, gang violence, gangs, prison life, Rosanne Cash, school to prison, student assembly, The Good Life

The Nature of the Nectar

April 14, 2013 By T. L. Sherwood Leave a Comment

My First Drink, gender differences, men and women drinking, The Good Life

Do men find their first drink more memorable than women?

Filed Under: Featured Content, My First Drink, The Good Life Tagged With: beer drinkers, Berea, boyhood memories, boys drinking, Cleveland, Families, fathers, fathers and sons, gender differences, Lent, men and women drinking, military families, my first drink, Ohio, Peel's beer, rites of passage, The Good Life, tree house, twin brothers

The Beer Can Pull Tab Ritual

April 13, 2013 By Steve Coruzzi 1 Comment

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I felt cool knowing the proper ritual.

Filed Under: Featured Content, My First Drink, The Good Life Tagged With: alcohol in families, beer can pull tab, katherine sandoz, my first drink, sofia vizcaino, Steve Coruzzi, 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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Drop Out…or Suit Up?

April 8, 2013 By Dave Kaiser 10 Comments

The tectonic shift from full time jobs to flexible and temporary work

Filed Under: Business Ethics, Good Feed Blog Tagged With: Coach, consultant, consulting, dads, disability, discouraged, economy, employment, entrepreneur, Families, family, flexible, freelance, freelancing, Good Feed Blog, health insurance, job, monetary policy, The Good Life, unemployment, Work

Embracing Destruction

April 5, 2013 By Kevin Macku 7 Comments

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How do we learn to take decisive action?

Filed Under: Conflict, Emotional Intelligence, Featured Content, The Good Life Tagged With: aggression, ahimsa, Anger Management, Boys, boys aggression, boys fighting, bullying, bystanders, confidence, conflict, Dalai Lama, dating violence, defense, destruction, domestic violence, emotional intelligence, fight club, Fighting, Gun Violence, impulse control, manhood, masculinity, men of action, negative emotions, non-violence, passive behavior, passivity, sexual violence, Steubenville, taking action, The Good Life, trusting our instincts, using force, victims, violence, white knight, White Knight Syndrome

Simplifying: Living With Less Can Leave Us With More

April 5, 2013 By Scott Behson 4 Comments

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How a dot-com millionaire and a former missionary family have found greater riches in voluntary simplicity.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Lifestyle, The Good Life, Trending Tagged With: 320 square foot house, consumer culture, Debra Jordan, fight club, finance, getting out of debt, Graham Hill, home, lifestyle, lifestyles of the rich, living with less, missionaries, mortgage free lifestyle, real estate, scaling down, Scott Behson, The Good Life, Tyler Durden, very small houses, voluntary simplicity, work/life balance

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.

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

Prison Utopia

April 3, 2013 By Carl Pettit 12 Comments

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The United States leads the world in incarceration rates of its citizens. Is America really home of the free?

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Freedom, Prison, The Good Life Tagged With: American freedom jail, Carl Pettit, Root Down, The Good Life, United States prisons, US prison rates

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

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

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

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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

“I Don’t See Race”: Racial Color Blindness and Eradicating Racism

April 1, 2013 By Billy Johnson II 21 Comments

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So-called “color blindness” actually perpetuates racist attitudes, says Bill Johnson II. What will work to eradicate racism?

Filed Under: Dr. Bill, Editors' Picks, Featured Content, On Race, The Good Life Tagged With: #imnotracistbut, Anita Heiss, biracial children, biracial families, color blind race, cross racial interactions, cross racial relationships, Dr. Bill Johnson II, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, i'm not racist but..., Kim Kardashian interview, Madame Noire, patriarchy, racial discrimination, racial inequity, Racism, raising biracial children, raising children in a post racial society, raising color blind children, The Good Life, US history, white is a color, white people, White Privilege, white supremacy

Microwave Oven S’mores: Simple to Full-On!—All in Pictures

March 30, 2013 By Bruce Tretter Leave a Comment

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These s’mores can be made campfire simple or dressed to the hilt. Either way, they’re a cinch to make in the microwave.

Filed Under: Food, The Good Life Tagged With: Bruce Tretter, desserts, easy dessert recipes, easy microwave recipes, gotta eat, microwave desserts, microwave kids treats, microwave recipes, photo illustrated recipes, recipes kids love, The Good Life, treats

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