Real men bawl their eyes out. Here are their stories.
Good Is Good
Remembering Timmy
“Penny the pup is back home with me and the family. She is doing great. Me? I’m picking up more shit.”
Male Yearning
Tom Matlack gets serious about smash-mouthed football, Humanism, and the epidemic of men yearning for love and meaning.
25 Things I’d Like in My President
Tom Matlack cuts through the political rhetoric to identify what’s important to him. What’s on your list?
25 Things I’d Like My Sons to Know
Tom Matlack offers 25 things he’d like his sons to know about life.
Male Bonding is a Good Thing
Tom Matlack insists that it’s not a lack of emotion guys are suffering from, but rather the lack of understanding of what it means to be a man in 2012.
Is it Time For a Woman President?
Tom Matlack looks at the mess we’ve made of American politics and wonders if it isn’t time to step aside and elect a female president.
Things I’d Like to Change About Myself
Here are Tom Matlack’s notes to himself. What are yours?
Summer Dreamin’
Tom Matlack takes a moment of stillness to reflect upon the dreams of his past that have been given wings by sultry August afternoons.
Not a Joke: Why Do Our Boys Keep Up the Mass Shootings?
I am left with the question of what is going on with our boys that they exclusively are prone to the strike to such powerful, insane, derranged, and hurtful forces that would cause some tiny fraction to come up with a plan to go into a school or a movie theater or an isolated island to kid as many innocent children as possible?
Why “What Do You Do?” is an Attack on Manhood
Tom Matlack wonders why men are always defined by what they do, instead of who they are, or better yet, what they love.
A Manly List of Summer Fun
Tom Matlack puts together a man’s man list of things that have made this summer truly awesome.
Why Being a Good Man is Not a Feminist Issue
In the end I think we all want the same thing: a new kind of macho in which men are allowed to express themselves as fully formed human beings who change diapers, are capable of intimacy, do meaningful work, and aspire to goodness in whatever way they define it.
Will Ferrell’s Address to the Graduates (of Harvard)
My son Seamus, who is 16, is a connoisseur of youtube videos that make you laugh. This is his all-time favorite.
Reflections from the Father of the Graduate
Parenthood involves adoration, protection, and instruction with the requirement to simultaneously let go.
Men, Money, and Kids
Tom Matlack is a venture capitalist and a father. Guess where he has come closest to losing what’s truly important.