by Guest Writer | Aug 22, 2020 | Asking for Help
Bill Oakes MDI Contributor When I was a boy, my family moved into a new neighborhood. Soon, my younger brother and I found the other boys who lived nearby, and we started doing things together, mostly outside. There was Mike from across the street, and Ricky two...
by Guest Writer | Aug 21, 2020 | Asking for Help
Brian Childers MDI Contributor On March 1, 2008 I was on the way to the airport to fly to Sao Paolo, Brazil to teach a week-long COBIT Train the Trainer class … when my mother died. I was devastated. I was hurt to my very core – even though we were very...
by Guest Writer | Aug 21, 2020 | Asking for Help
Gary Wojciechowski MDI Contributor Asking for help from the men? Don’t go it alone? That is a tall order for the “lone wolf,” who runs alone in his own pack. Asking for help is hard for most in part because we men have a lot of pride. Many of us are...
by Guest Writer | Aug 10, 2020 | Asking for Help
Fred Tomasello Jr. Guest Contributor Sometimes, we men just won’t ask for help. When I got out of the Marine Corps in March 1970, my wife and our two children began attending St. John Presbyterian Church in West Tampa even though we lived about 30 miles away in...
by Guest Writer | Aug 10, 2020 | Asking for Help
Tom McCarter MDI Contributor Every year, the Old Crusty Bastards Men’s Division partners with the Sacred Heart Community Service organization San Jose to participate in their Pack-a-Back program (www.packaback.org), filling backpacks with school supplies for children...
by Peter Hymans | Aug 9, 2020 | Asking for Help, Whether to Forgive
Pete Hymans Guest Contributor I decided to attend my 50th college homecoming anniversary last fall. I had not seen many of these people in 53 years, and as I meandered among the unrecognizable faces, a name from the past vibrated my ear-gear and the tympanum...
