Bully Battle by David L. Walker
A gang of thugs waited for me after school. They’d picked on me through junior high, and though I’d fought their ringleader in a wrestling match, the bullying continued. It was never clear why I was...
View ArticleBeing a Boy by Julius Lester
As boys go, I wasn’t much. I mean, I tried to be a boy and spent many childhood hours pummeling my hardly formed ego with failure at Cowboys and Indians, baseball, football, lying, and sneaking out of...
View ArticleA Wonderment of Women
This is the introduction to the second section of Bill’s anthology, Heart of a Man: Men’s Stories for Women, slated for publication the summer of 2019. Men are students of women’s behavior, as women...
View ArticleFirst Love by Lord Byron
This is the introduction to the second section of Bill’s anthology, Heart of a Man: Men’s Stories for Women, slated for publication the summer of 2019. George Gordon Byron, aka Lord Byron (1788–1824),...
View ArticleCool by Ron Jones
I was twelve years old growing up in San Francisco’s Sunset District. It was the ’50s, and everything was changing. I turned the radio dial and heard, “Shrimp boats are coming, their sails are in...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood by Marck T. Wilder
We traipse the length of the clinic, searching its wall of mirrored panels for the entrance, and finally find it on our second pass; but when I lean into it, it won’t budge. I try to peek through the...
View ArticleSharpie Stones by Jordan Legg
Connor Durham wrenched the backpack out of his locker. “Hey man,” Blake said, “you ready to go?” Connor closed the locker, and they walked down the hallway toward the exit. He pushed through the doors...
View ArticleApril 3rd by John Biesecker
The first time your mother didn’t come home, I worried about her. When it happened a second time I worried about me. The third time I spent the night staring at the red numbers of the clock, I worried...
View ArticleA Premeditated Starving by Michael Morgan
When the teenaged girl’s physician joined us, I knew it was no ordinary transport to another hospital. At first I thought he wanted to keep us on our toes, but he ignored us. He hovered over his tiny...
View ArticleIt’s Always About the Girl by Michael Estabrook
Originally published on Heart of a Man. Read more “Heart of a Man: Men’s Stories for Women” on The Good Men Project. Coming soon! In the meantime, sign up to get email updates about the book here....
View ArticleA Father’s Promise
— I was nine and a half the summer we moved from the two-family tenement on a busy street in the working-class neighborhood called The Highlands. We moved across town to Belvedere, where single-family...
View ArticleBuddies by Richard Schiffman
I called you after you died to hear again your ducky voice on the answering machine. For weeks you continued: “This is Will at Bathrooms Restored, please leave a message after the beep.” But I never...
View ArticleWhy Every Man Needs a Men’s Group
My life was in turmoil. My marriage was in trouble. My two kids were suffering. I was very successful at work, but the stress was killing me. When I saw the flyer in Mill Valley I almost screamed....
View Article13 Things I Have Never Said to Him
— 1)The way he came to my life was no less than the bliss of God. He came just like an angel, specially sent to me to heal my wounds. He touched every cut & tear with the tips of his fingers &...
View ArticleAnother Part of a Personal Manifesto About What Makes Men Good
(Note: This article is the fourth in my Good Men Manifesto series. Here’s the first one, here’s part two, and this is part three.) 1. Imagine the beauty of life beginning when a successful sperm gains...
View ArticleMeet Seth
Have you ever wondered what it‘s like to be an actor, yoga instructor or bartender? Meet Seth from the @the.kaizen.projekt. He is all 3, plus a fitness enthusiast and vlogger. Seth and I sat down and...
View ArticleMeet Dr. Sim, MD
Ever wondered what it’s like to be a family doctor? Meet Sim. Sim is an MD, sports enthusiast and an all-around, good guy. Sim and I discuss his journey from Hamilton to Ireland to Nova Scotia (8:00),...
View ArticleMeet Dan
Meet @danwaldie. Dan is an engineer, writer, world-traveller and an all-around, good guy. Dan and I sat down and discussed his job as the chief operating officer for a small startup, travelling to...
View ArticleMeet Kerr
Meet @kerzy. Over the past decade, Kerzy has transformed his body from a scrawny 130lbs to a brawny, bodybuilding certified 200+lbs. Kerzy and I catch up on the past decade (3:00), his slow progress in...
View ArticleMeet Steve
Meet Steve @zossen. Steve and I have been fierce tennis competitors (and friends) for the past 3 years. We sat down and discussed his history playing tennis (7:00), indoor tennis & Roger Federer...
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