Gravity & Flight
21 July 2022 Talk about a pregnant moment, gravid with significance. Two years ago, on this day in the early months of a worldwide...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Poet Identity
Guest Blog. This essay was written by a recent student-friend, as he explores one of those areas by which we establish meaning in our...
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...