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The Next Life [Book Excerpt: 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared]

February 4, 2013 By Kim Stafford 2 Comments

My brother Bret started the next life at forty, when he departed from this world by suicide.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Solitude, Suicide, The Good Life Tagged With: adventure, anthropology, brotherhood, brothers, california, camping, Candle Creek, Cascade Mountains, children, depression, dreams, fatherhood, finding yourself, First Nations people, friendship, grief, hiking, Iowa, Ishi in Two Worlds, loneliness, Meaning of Life, Mount Jefferson, Native Americans, Oregon, Poet Laureate, poets, Presbyterian, purpose, single fatherhood, solitude, Suffering, suicide, teaching writing, Texas, Wilderness, William Stafford, writers

A Guy’s Wilderness Canoeing Adventure

August 26, 2012 By Earl Hipp 1 Comment

When young males are without older men as guides to the natural world, it’s easy for them to be completely disconnected from nature.

Filed Under: Education, The Good Life, Travel Tagged With: adventure, bears, Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Boys, Boys to Men Mentoring Network of Minnesota, BTM-MN, BWCA, camping, campsites, Canoeing, compass, experience, guys, healing, hiking, lakes, manhood, men, mentoring, mentorship, Minnesota, Nature Deficit Disorder, Ojibwe, portage, rites of passage, sharing, swimming, talking, The Good Life, trails, travel, trust, Wilderness, young men

“I knew my wife was the one the first time she showed me that she had my back.”

August 22, 2012 By the Editors Leave a Comment

These are comments by Bruce and Paul Kidwell on the post “She’s the One”.

Filed Under: Comment of the Day Tagged With: backpacking, family, family picnic, Husband, man, marriage, men, New Jersey, PR, she's the one, spouse, spouses, support, the one, Tom Matlack, Utah, wife, Wilderness, women

King’s Canyon Conversion

July 18, 2012 By Charles Greiner 4 Comments

The first thing I discovered in the King’s Canyon wilderness was that I am not as good a man as I thought myself to be.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Men Over 50, The Good Life Tagged With: backpacking, commitments, deserts, family, Friendships, golf carts, goodness, grandchildren, hiking, home, King's Canyon, legacy, marriage, mountain climbing, mountains, naturalists, nature, northeast, Nostalgia, retirement, retirement mecca, Sun City, West Palm Beach, Wilderness

Men in Captivity

October 11, 2011 By David Zucker 2 Comments

“It’s like you have no penis.”

Filed Under: Gender & Sexuality, Platonic Relationships, The Good Life Tagged With: cage, Evolved Man, gender, masculinity, men, The Good Life, The Wild, Wilderness

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