Giving Up the Ghost: The Gift of Mortality
15 May 2021 “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” -- Mae West I am 67 years old, the same age my father died,...
Sex and the Commons III -- Stunted Intimacy
Love cannot be disembodied even in its most sanctified forms, nor is it without sanctity even in its most fleshly. – Thomas Mann, Magic...
Sex and The Commons II: Uncommon Sex
In this three-part series, I wanted to reflect on the relationship between the erosion of our discourse on the Common Good and our most...
Square Ball in a Round Hole
To distract my toddler one morning when my wife was trying to get him into the car, I picked up the cardboard container from some wine...
Psychotherapy Emasculated: APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men I.
The Ides of March My father once told me he didn’t know how a boy became a man without the experience of combat. I’m sure he never wished...
How Do You Think You Are?
We all take as a given, like fish in water, a cultural and historical preoccupation with the “self” as something to nurture, protect,...
Tropic Discourse
I suppose I have been interested in metaphor and other tropes since I went to a conference on “Metaphor and Thought” back when I was in...
Bad Boys
So what’s the appeal of bad boys? Let’s be clear that the real “bad boys,” are the ones who have failed, the incarcerated felons, the...
Your Guts
I’ve been told that leaving academia when I did, at the relatively tender age of 63, and at the top of my scholarly and teaching game,...
How We Know Ourselves: c. In the World
We know our bodies intimately. It is through our bodies and our nervous systems that we are aware of and come to know anything at all....