Growing up

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 wh...

Living on Tulsa Time II: From Groves of Academe to Open Plain

A nearby colleague, Phil Cary of Eastern University, in a recruitment video for his institution, said something powerful about a liberal ...

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...

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 co...

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...

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 li...

How We Fool Ourselves

Knowing ourselves must surely include knowing not only that but how much our very sense of ourselves is a “mythic reality” by which we co...

How We Know Ourselves: a. Limits

The Socratic maxim, gnothi seauton, “know thyself,” was originally intended to emphasize its importance, over time wasted on things like ...

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 express...

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