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Life Advice: A Letter to My Younger Self
This year I turned 40, and along with the realization that I’m now middle-aged (ack!) came some meditations on the life lessons I’ve learned so far (or not learned, as the case may be). As part of...
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Mutiny at the Workplace! Start With the IT Department
Corporate IT departments are hit or miss. I’ve dealt with a few. At a prestigious (unnamed) Cambridge university, famous for entrepreneurial elitism with a side order of more elitism, the IT...
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Muslim Mosh Pit
Young American men have sanctioned outlets for rage and rebellion their counterparts in conservative Islam do not. Many commentators in the West, on both the right and the left, have put a lot of...
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Growing Up Angry No More: Raising Emotionally Intelligent Boys
Boys don’t just “mellow out,” they learn to repress anger and fear. How to give your sons the freedom to feel and express the full range of emotions. I was an angry boy. My family often reminds me of...
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Raising Teenagers For Dummies (Like Me)
Tom Matlack thinks about how to best raise his kids all day long, even now that they’ve grown into teens. Here are some of his insights. — Let me first talk about this from a dad’s perspective,...
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Five Films That Changed the Game
The Seventies were a decade of smashing taboos in filmmaking: in dialogue, depictions of history, and the image of the leading man. The 1970s saw a huge shift in the way that Hollywood made movies. The...
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Too Many Fatherless Father’s Days
Patrick Caneday didn’t know what he was missing, growing up without a father around, until he became a father, himself. I was two when he left. When I became a father and my daughter turned two, I...
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Tony Stewart, You Mend and We’ll Knit
JJ Vincent tries to convince the still-broken-legged NASCAR driver Tony Stewart that he needs to join the legions of men who knit. Dear Tony: A third surgery? And just when you were beginning to...
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An Attempt at Teen Rebellion
What better way to be a teenage rebel than smoking tea? ____ I woke up one morning and thought, “I should really rebel.” Because I hadn’t. I was seventeen years old but had never drank, never smoked,...
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Three Days and Four Choices
Jason Pockrandt tells the story of how he lost his father at 17. ___ I am here to provide you with an opportunity to choose today to create another day that will shift your direction. We all make...
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What I Learned About Adult Rebellion From My 3-Year-Old Daughter
Learning to defuse his daughter’s tantrums taught Ty Phillips a surprising lesson about himself. ___ Brynn turns around to face me, her little face wrinkled with anger. She stomps her feet in an act...
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Sacred Archetypes for Modern Masculinity: The Destroyer
Within great destruction, a chance for renewal is possible as long as it is properly fostered. ________ Archetypes are recurrent symbols that offer spiritual advice to men and women as we travel the...
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Mutiny at the Workplace! Start With the IT Department
Corporate IT departments are hit or miss. I’ve dealt with a few.At a prestigious (unnamed) Cambridge university, famous for entrepreneurial elitism with a side order of more elitism, the IT department...
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Muslim Mosh Pit
Young American men have sanctioned outlets for rage and rebellion their counterparts in conservative Islam do not.Many commentators in the West, on both the right and the left, have put a lot of...
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Growing Up Angry No More: Raising Emotionally Intelligent Boys
Boys don’t just “mellow out,” they learn to repress anger and fear. How to give your sons the freedom to feel and express the full range of emotions.I was an angry boy. My family often reminds me of...
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Raising Teenagers For Dummies (Like Me)
Tom Matlack thinks about how to best raise his kids all day long, even now that they’ve grown into teens. Here are some of his insights.—Let me first talk about this from a dad’s perspective, but...
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Five Films That Changed the Game
The Seventies were a decade of smashing taboos in filmmaking: in dialogue, depictions of history, and the image of the leading man.The 1970s saw a huge shift in the way that Hollywood made movies. The...
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Too Many Fatherless Father’s Days
Patrick Caneday didn’t know what he was missing, growing up without a father around, until he became a father, himself.I was two when he left.When I became a father and my daughter turned two, I...
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Tony Stewart, You Mend and We’ll Knit
JJ Vincent tries to convince the still-broken-legged NASCAR driver Tony Stewart that he needs to join the legions of men who knit. Dear Tony:A third surgery? And just when you were beginning to walk...
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An Attempt at Teen Rebellion
What better way to be a teenage rebel than smoking tea?____I woke up one morning and thought, “I should really rebel.” Because I hadn’t. I was seventeen years old but had never drank, never smoked,...
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