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...
Sex and The Commons I: The Erosion of the Common Good
I taught college for most of four decades, and it just seems to me that these sentiments have become alien to citizens of a nation for...
Living on Tulsa Time I: Down from the Ivory Tower
An old college chum sent me an article called “Storm Clouds over Tulsa," written by Jacob Howland at the end of April 2019. It got me...
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...
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...
Why Not Just Tell the Stories?
An occasionally wise erstwhile friend once told me he thought there were three important things in life to think about. While his...
Meditations on Epigenesis
Strange beginnings to some thoughts about epigenesis. For those of you who aren’t sure what that means, it’s the part of biological...
You Make Me Sick
We’ve all expressed strong feelings about something or someone with expressions like “you smell,” “you make me sick,” or “you make me...
Forbidden Knowledge
Parental Advisory: Explicit Content One of the truths about our neurophysiology is habituation, feeling less and less with repetition of...