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Love and Sex Are More Than What Goes on Below the Belly Button
A Good Men Project reader submitted this question since he is struggling with an issue that often occurs in relationships. I am responding, with a caveat. Although I am a clinician/social...
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What Do You Stand For and Against?
I am writing this piece a few hours after returning home from Pridefest in my hometown of Doylestown, Pennsylvania (the heart of Bucks County). It is the third I have attended since May where I...
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How Can People Be so Heartless?
Since Election Day, 2016, I have awakened each day wondering what fresh hell will befall the world. In all of the previous five and a half decades I have been on the planet, there has been war,...
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Who Comforts The Comforters?
I woke up this morning at 2:09 for a potty break and found it nigh onto impossible to tumble back to sleep. My mind was awhirl with tornado-like fear. I looked around my safe, comfortable house. My...
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The Love Renegade Leaves His Mark
Back in April of 2019, I visited a local cafe called Nellie Rae’s Kitchen. There I saw an image and a magical incantation that immediately drew my attention as it called out to me from the surface of...
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No, Stop!
Yesterday, when in conversation with someone who was questioning our ability to effect change with our thoughts, I related three occasions over the years when I witnessed near-catastrophic roadway...
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Everyone You Now Know and Love Was Once a Stranger
Yesterday, while in conversation with someone, I found myself dismayed at a comment they made that it was ‘pointless’ to initiate a conversation with a stranger since they would likely never become a...
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How To Integrate Peak Experiences
Abraham Maslow, described peak experiences as, “An almost overwhelming sense of pleasure, euphoria or joy, a deep sense of wonder or awe, feeling in harmony or at one with the universe, altered...
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What Curves Will Life Throw At You?
The Art of Racing in the Rain, based on the novel written by Garth Stein is not your typical talking dog movie. This newly-released, sure to be a hit film stars Milo Ventimiglia The post What Curves...
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House Rules
Many years ago, when my now 32-year-old son was in the throes of adolescent indifference about organization and neatness, I came up with what I call The House Rules. His cleanliness standards were far...
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I Asked For a Sign and You Gave Me a Billboard
This morning I was speaking with a young woman who has been facing a series of illness that sometimes knock the stuffings out of her and prevent her from having the ‘normal’ life she expected. She is...
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My Cup Runneth Over
A wedding, a workshop, the White House. What do they all have in common? They were part of Labor Day weekend, 2019. I am typing these words sitting at my friend Mitch’s dining room table in Falls...
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911-I Will Not Fear
Like the day JFK and John Lennon were killed, most people can tell you where they were when they heard the news that terrorists had devastated the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and crash-landed a...
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Why Do We Assign Gender to Hairstyles and Clothing?
We are each walking billboards for the fashion of our choosing, influenced by societal standards and norms and sometimes in opposition to them. They may have us raising our eyebrows or applauding...
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A New School Year: Are You Ready?
At the end of summer, an annual ritual takes place in many homes. Notebooks, binders, pens, laptops, and books are stashed in backpacks to be toted to school and stashed in lockers in between classes....
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When Bullies Mean Something For Evil, But Good Prevails
You see it every day, stories about people who were picked on, bullied, trolled and abused. It knows no age restriction, gender, culture or socio-economic background. There is a trope that says, “Hurt...
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Doll Face
I grew up in the 1960s and one of my first toys as a pre-K kid was a Barbie doll. Stiff limbed, with an impossibly cinched waist, torpedo breasts, feet that were in a constant state of tippy-toe, long...
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How the Statue of Liberty, Mary Poppins, Wonder Woman and a Kayaker Ended Up...
My long-time friend Ruth Anne Wood is a Renaissance Woman. I initially met her in 1986 when she was a teen. My husband and her mother were friends and Catherine had brought her old-soul daughter to the...
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The Weird Phenomenon of Suicide in Flies
By the time you read this, I will have entered into my 62nd year, on October 13th, celebrating with family and friends and willing strangers on the street. Let me explain the second part of the...
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An Open Letter to the CEO of Planet Fitness
A few weeks ago, I read an article that spurred me initially to deep thought and soul searching and then spurred me to action in the form that comes naturally to this career journalist. I put fingers...
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