Identity

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 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...

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...

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 liv...

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, exp...

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...

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...

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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