Emotion

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 thi...

The Futility of Psychotherapy: APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men II.

Out Like a Lamb Gore Vidal once said that since it is power, not sex, that is the true motor to human life, young people no longer swallow...

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...

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 g...

Crying and Laughing

“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” Psalm 30:5 Yes, things can often look much better in the morning, and th...

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 sex...

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, “t...

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. Bu...

The Peace that Passeth All Understanding

When he was born, his mama said, “The moon turned black, and the clock stopped dead. Lord, have mercy,” she said, “what have I done? Is m...

The Power of Literary Reading

This is a "guest blog" from my old friend Martha, my one-time Dean of Faculty who got me involved in a writing group, part of the inspira...

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