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...
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...
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,...
Monkey Mind II: Mysticism, Childhood, and Mental Health
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creation out of void, but out of chaos." -- Mary Shelley We are all mystics...
How We Know Ourselves: d. Intimately
There is a real paradox in intimate relationships. No one wants to be alone, but for someone to be really with you, especially to be a...
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....
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...