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Beard Primer
Joanna Schroeder fills you in on the latest in beard trends. Not since Mr. Edwards’ first appearance on Little House on the Prairie have beards been so popular. You can’t walk around Los Angeles these...
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Man-to-Man with lawyer-turned author Clifford Garstang
Cameron Conaway sits down with Clifford Garstang to discuss life, law, inspiration, and now, writing. Clifford Garstang served as a Peace Corps volunteer in South Korea, and after earning an MA in...
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What Is a Good Man?
Tom Matlack finds that defining goodness is not science, it’s art. The further I get into this good men thing, the less I feel like I know. For quite a while now I have been committed to the idea that...
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The Feeling of Speed
When Tom Matlack invested in a tech company other VC’s had left for dead, he had no idea how much it would bring him back to life. I huddled in an upstairs hallway, the phone receiver pinned to my...
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Is It Lazy to Opt Out of Technology?
Do you feel like you have to be “plugged in” at all times? In recent years, I’ve had multiple friends who’ve decided to intentionally forego internet in their apartments. None of these people are...
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Prizefighters and Poppas
What does the life deliberately and well lived look like? I passed New Year’s Eve in the dark on a wet road in Vermont. The sky hung low and starless overhead, the snow and ice dripped from the roofs,...
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It Takes a Village: The Infinite Power of the Dad Blogger
I ask you, Mr. Father Blogger, what is your purpose? Life of Dad’s Ryan Hamilton finds love, balance, and help in the community of dad bloggers There’s an old saying that goes, “Parenthood does not...
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And Thoreau Shakes His Head at America
If Henry David Thoreau still believes that “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty,” then he must be awfully disappointed about the current state of America. — As if he could peer into the...
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Guyhood Call for Submissions: Get Outside, Because “Out is In”
July is National Parks and Recreation Month and Henry David Thoreau’s birthday. GMP wants your stories about outdoor adventures, misadventures, and everything in between. ________ “I went to the woods...
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Cutting Firewood in the Cup
Stephen Scott Whitaker channels Henry David Thoreau in this meditation on the natural world. — Cutting Firewood in the Cup Walden-like, the sloping land into a cup where the maple fell once in a...
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It’s Time for Civil Disobedience in Indiana
It is time to bring the nonviolent protests of the 1960s civil rights movement to anti-gay Indiana. I don’t live in Indiana, and because I don’t own a car, there is little chance I’ll be visiting...
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The Myth of Quiet Desperation: Your Job Does Not Need To Be Your Passion
Choose yourself, and don’t let anyone tell you that you should quit your job. ___ Why do we think that we need to have a romance with our jobs? My job is not my passion. No, I don’t hate my job. I...
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I’m Sorry, Thoreau: Men, Nature, and the Awful, Rotten World We’ve Created
I’m sorry, Henry. I tried. We all tried. Well, some of us. Make that a whole hell lot of us didn’t try—the Industrial Revolution and the Single-Use/Plastic-Styrofoam Throwaway Revolution have...
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Why So Many Americans Think Buddhism is Just a Philosophy
Embed from Getty Images — Pamela Winfield, Elon University In East Asia, Buddhists celebrate the Buddha’s death and entrance into final enlightenment in February. But at my local Zen temple in North...
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Bikin’ with Thoreau in Mind
When you buy a motorcycle, everyone thinks you’re going to die. You become a cautionary tale for friends, family, colleagues — a dead man riding. After I bought a 1982 Honda Nighthawk, I was no longer...
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Projecting and Negotiating Credibility
— ================== “People can be stunningly unobservant. “ —— Stephen King ====================== “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” ― Henry David Thoreau ===================...
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