For millenia, men and women have been ciphers to one another.
Yin to our yang. Unstoppable force to immovable object. Magnets at once attracting and repelling.
Yet there’s never been an us without them.
Whether mother, moll, boss, sister, or sweetheart, we need them.
And they, in their strange and unfathomable way, need us.
This month we raise our literary glass to those who, literally and figuratively, must bear us.
Here’s to the women, and below are their stories.
The Women
A compendium of stories about the women men love.
Assorted Authors
The Unseen
Behind every man there are many, many women.
Matthew Biswas
Atlas Winked
A tiny cultural mistake
leads to marriage.
Dan Kempner
Burnsie in the House!
A Cauldron, a Straw Vote, and the Legacy of Reachout.
Part 3 of the Bay Area saga.
Men sent us photos of the women they cherish: a BFF; a grandmother; a sister. Yet another was a daughter who, sadly, has just left us. And, of course, there are odes aplenty to sweethearts and wives!
Women’s contributions to men are legion. Yet, those women, and their influences, are rarely seen, and more rarely acknowledged, by those same men.
A middle-aged man makes a simple cultural mistake. The rest – the dating, the engagement, and the wedding – are history.
A tragedy unfolding in real time. One of our men fears, then must face, the worst disaster that can befall a parent.
Be advised, this story is current, and may be challenging to read.
You’ve washed up on a tropical beach with nothing but a tin cup, a flint, a handsaw, and a lot of craft.
What would you do?
Burnsie’s third and final installment on the coming together of the Bay Area men’s circles. It went well. For a while.
The third season of Dad Roots Book Club is about to kick off. This season’s book is Richard Reeves’s ‘Of Boys and Men’ but don’t worry about that right now. There’s no cost to join this group of intentional fathers committed to growing as parents.
Full details and contact information are within!
Each month LM asks you to weigh in on matters of greater—or lesser— import. April’s QoM goes back to that cheapskate—and cheap date—Adam, whose wife had to leave the garden as payment for his lunch.
“Purpose Isn’t Out There. It Shows Up in How You LiveAnd How You Work.” For a long time, I thought purpose would come with achievement. A
