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Two-fer Tuesday: Keeping Secrets and Evolving Men

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With summer upon us, I’m hoping that you’ve all either got some of your garden planted, purchased a CSA share, or are getting to know your local farmers at the farmers market! For this week’s Two-fer Tuesday picks, we’ve got a great essay on whether or not it’s OK to keep secrets from your spouse, and then [...]

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Review of The Evolution of Dad Film

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The role of the dad in families is rapidly changing. I know, state the obvious, eh? More fathers are opting to be the stay at home caregiver, there’s an increased interest for dads to be a bigger participant in their children’s lives, and more men are questioning their priorities. And that’s a good thing. Because if [...]

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Addendum to Retrosexual Code: Reality Check

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I recently stumbled across a web page from “Radical Conservative” (an anonymous blogger who apparently lives to bash people who don’t believe as he (she?) does) called Retrosexual Code. The Code is full of so many tired stereotypes that I can’t help but feel sorry for the person who wrote it. I’m going to help [...]

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Giants of Men

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[This is a revised version of a post originally published on Jan. 11, 2009, one that I felt was worth revisiting.] This weekend, I buried my grandfather. He was a giant among men, and will be sorely missed. He lost his wife of 65 years to cancer over two years ago, and he still lived [...]

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Mainstream Media to Men: You’re Dead Inside

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One of my favorite t-shirt designs has a picture of a TV with a hypnotized-looking person staring at it, and the caption, “Why do you think they call it programming?” So it probably goes without saying that I don’t watch (or even own a) TV. I just can’t bring myself to expose my family to [...]

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Two-fer Tuesday: The Dude Crisis and Easy Green Curry

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I like to stay up on what men are talking about as it relates to masculinity, manhood, and personal development, and one of my new favorite subscriptions in the ‘man stuff’ folder in my RSS reader is The Masculine Heart.

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It’s Not the Fall So Much as the Impact

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I had a major reality check this last week. Maybe reality check is not the correct term for it – perhaps mortality check is. Something happened to me that changed my life in the space of a single second. I’m writing this propped up in a reclining lawn chair in my living room, with my [...]

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When Does a Boy Become a Man? Our Missing Rites of Manhood

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At what point in a boy’s life does he become a man? How does his community, his father and uncles and grandpas, acknowledge that transition and begin the initiation and mentoring process of bringing him into the brotherhood of men? With our daughters, we can acknowledge their ascent to young womanhood when they start their [...]

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Natural Shaving Products for Men

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Unless you’re wearing a beard, you’ve got to shave every day. That’s just a fact of being a man. I’ve had a love/hate relationship with shaving for a long time – I couldn’t find a razor that I really liked, and I didn’t have a shaving cream that both worked well for me and was [...]

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Fatherhood: 100 Ways to be a Better Father

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Fatherhood is a tricky proposition. We all want to be great dads, but chances are, our fathers never sat down with us and taught us how to be one. And we don’t necessarily want to be our fathers. I mean, we want to emulate their positive influence on us, but we also want to do [...]

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