Aloneness
Michael ‘Burnsie’ Burns Aloneness is different from Loneliness. The latter is something I haven’t felt much in my lifetime so I can’t speak from experience.
1 February 2026
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Lonesome No More?
Dan Kempner Editor, Legacy MagazineEditorial One of my literary heroes, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., once wrote a novel about loneliness called Slaptick subtitled Lonesome No More.
1 February 2026
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Built on Purpose
Matt TagerGuest Writer This is the first installment of Built on Purpose, a new column focused on how purpose shapes career decisions as men take
1 February 2026
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For Every man
Chris ChristopherPresidentMentor Discover Inspire Doug is alive and well. In case you don’t remember him, Doug is every man.  This year, your board, and your
1 February 2026
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The Paradox of the Eight Billion
Matt CoddingtonGuest Writer How is it that I can be amidst eight billion people yet feel lonely? I’m certainly not alone with all of them
1 February 2026
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Breakfast of Champions (with Fish Sauce)
Dan KempnerEditor The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, Saigon Serenade – ed. October, 2018 This morning the Red Sox won the World
31 December 2025
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INTRODUCING… THE MDI WRITERS’ TEAM
It’s a Team For Writers For YOU! Writing is lonely work. It’s just you, a blank sheet, and a whole lot of waiting. Waiting for
31 December 2025
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Embrace All Men? Aww Crap!
Dan KempnerEditor, Legacy Magazine “Embrace all men,” reads one of the most profound tenets of Mentor, Discover, Inspire’s (MDI) Code of Honor. God, how I
1 December 2025
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The Goad
Dan KempnerEditorLegacy Magazine “The Archangel Foster turned back to where he had been interrupted. Oh, yes, a poor soul temporally designated as ‘Alice Douglas.’ To
1 December 2025
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It’s About Doug, the Board, and YOU!
Chris ChristopherThe President’s Fire Pit- Side Chat November 13 and 14 marked the first face-to-face meeting of the MDI Board of Directors in five years:
1 December 2025
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Friday Morning at 9 O’Clock as the Day Begins
Chris ChristopherPresident MDI Firepit Chat Two weeks ago, 92 men – 74 participants and 18 leaders – left home. They did so to attend The
1 November 2025
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Into the Wild Blue
Dan KempnerEditorLegacy Magazine I was standing, poised, on a street corner in Luxembourg. Before the ink had dried on my high school diploma I’d taken
1 November 2025
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Adolescence at 60?
EditorialDan KempnerEditor When I was a boy, there was a lot of talk about Margaret Meade’s seminal work, “Coming of Age in Samoa,” an anthropological
30 September 2025
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My Perfect (Sexual) Storm
AnonymousGuest Writer [Editor’s note: though our writers often choose to share their intimate thoughts, experiences, and insights in these pages, Legacy Magazine is, for obvious
1 September 2025
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SEX… and Men. How’s That Workin’ Out for Ya?
Show up at any Men’s Team meeting and ask, “when was the last time any of you had sex with someone?” At least several will
1 September 2025
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