[This post is the latest in a series I've begun called How to be a Better Husband, in which I take what doesn’t work in a relationship, turn it upside down and then apply it back to the marriage. Because we aren't really from Mars or Venus. We're just Earthlings.] Most relationships start out with…
I’m a huge fan of the work of Alan Watts, especially his talks on the radio series and lectures he did back in the day. He had the ability to take philosophy and make it accessible – he was hip, eloquent, and witty, capable of bringing esoteric topics down to earth for the rest of us….
In a previous post, I wrote about developing manly skills that are alternatives to the psuedo-manliness ideals of binge drinking, violence, philandering, and cluelessness so prevalent in our culture, saying that being in service to others is an important piece of being a true man. The article was well received, but I just got a…
After writing How to be a Better Husband: Show Up, I felt the need to jump onto the other side of the relationship, so to speak. It’s easy to find fault with our own self, or our own gender, and then to make fun of it, but it’s usually not cool to point out what the…
It’s Earth Day so Hank D and the Bee have the day off. You can visit the entire archive of Hank D and the Bee cartoons here. In their place, please enjoy this Earth Day poem and illustration…oh, and please ENJOY EARTH DAY! See all of Joe’s Hank D and the Bee cartoons at joemohrtoons.com/category/hank-d-and-the-bee/….
One of the symptoms of the sorry state of modern manhood is the crafting of pseudo-manliness articles, which tend to revolve around the stereotype of the foolish and shallow man who acts macho and virile, while completely disregarding some of the higher virtues of manliness. In order to balance out those articles, I’d like to…
I’ve been struggling lately. First I had a physical setback, a broken ankle, and I thought that dealing with the physical side of my healing would be the major thing to overcome. Then came the realization that the mental part of my game was actually a more difficult piece to overcome, and I completely underestimated…
After my accident, I was awash in self-pity and quite depressed about the whole thing. I felt as if nothing was going my way, and I stopped doing a bunch of things that I had just recently started to do. The underlying feeling I had was that I was off my game. Even simple tasks…
For a while, I was really getting down about my accident and the way my life instantly changed afterward. All the things I *could* be doing, I’m not able to do, and I’m much more dependent on others just to get through my daily routine. But I’ve been practicing having a positive attitude about my…
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All of us need to have something in our life that doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with making a living, or making our family happy, or meeting someone else’s needs. When we don’t fill ourselves up by pursuing our passions, we get emptied out and have nothing to give to others. I’ve been doing…
