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Family Disses MLK's Memory

Words cannot express the profound sense of outrage I feel about the recent betrayal of Harry Belafonte after the family of Martin Luther King Jr. stopped him from auctioning off valuable personal papers of the late Dr. King. Dr. King's Documents Withdrawn From Auction (The New York Times) is a... Read more →

How to Be a Man in Mid-Life I mentioned to a colleague recently that some of my visitors find my blog by typing in to a search engine "mid-life crisis at 25" and his response was "That's just being 25." I couldn't agree more. The term midlife crisis has become... Read more →

Prison System Broken But Stocks Keep Rising If you don't think prison building represents big profits, think again. Despite a recent U.S. Census report pointing to unexpected decline in prison population, prison stocks are expected to rise, according to Barron's. Correction Corp. of America is likely to see its profits... Read more →

Ode to a New World

I'm a magazine junkie and somehow I missed the socially conscious ODE Magazine until now. Since 1995 it has been giving Europeans a rich diet of real-life stories about positive change. Since 2003, Ode's been doing the same for Americans and the rest of the world with its international, English-language... Read more →

The Tao of Midlife Crisis I've written on this topic, as regular readers know, but today found an articulate, focused, elegant, and uplifting website created by Casey Kochmer called PersonalTao.com. The truth, he writes, is that "Midlife Crisis is really a midlife transformation." An excerpt: "....Midlife Crisis represents a deeper... Read more →

Mid-Life Man-ifesto!

Hugh at Gaping Void is my new favorite thinker. "I'm interested in changing the world [however you wish to interpret that statement]. And I believe gapingvoid readers tend to be interested in writers who feel the same. That's the quality we'll collectively be looking for, so please keep that in... Read more →

Thoughts on Man's Purpose in Life He quotes Voltaire, Sir Thomas More and Theodore Roosevelt, refers to Aristotle and Luther, and presents extracts from the I Ching... from the grave. Admiral H.G. Rickover, known as the Father of the Nuclear Navy, lectured at the Morgenthau Memorial Lecture series some time... Read more →

A Visionary Man: Frank Herbert

I search online for interesting or unusual information about men, men's issues, mid-life crisis and male menopause. So when an interview with Frank Herbert, of Dune sci-fi fame, popped up in my inbox from Google Alerts, my curiosity was piqued. I'm not a particular fan of sci-fi (sorry), so imagine... Read more →