WATCH: The LGBTQ References you Likely Missed During the Super Bowl
— By Mike Wilke The gayest things about the Super Bowl this year turned out not to be the commercials, what with Lady Gaga flying down from the roof, and fan shots of Elton John. . . Elton John is at...
View ArticleBrave Men in Tears
Embed from Getty Images — Men who are willing to feel make this a better world, while men unwilling to feel can destroy our world. As I saw the President of the United States make fun of the tears of...
View ArticleHumpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall and a Man is Supposed to be Able to Fix It
Embed from Getty Images — Humpty Dumpty is a rather odd name for an egg. It is rather strange to give eggs names, but it worked great in writing a memorable poem. I recall being drawn to the poem as a...
View ArticleI Just Can’t Remember
Editor’s Note: This post was published on Rebel Thriver the day before the Super Bowl. Superbowl Lll is tomorrow and this blog post has been on the tip of my tongue all week. Like many women just the...
View ArticleWhich Big Game Ads Scored Biggest Online?
> Source: 30dB.com – Doritos The avocado industry took home the prize on Social last year, but now it’s tied at 83 percent positives with a Doritos/Mountain Dew commercial that featured Peter...
View ArticleSuper Bowl MVP Quarterback Models a New Masculinity
Embed from Getty Images — Listening to Nick Foles tell an audience of millions of on-looking men and boys that he has struggled and that it’s okay to fail gives me hope. Whether this was his intention...
View ArticleAmerican Football and What We Don’t See on the Field
Embed from Getty Images — On any given Sunday, 20 million Americans watch Sunday Night Football—consistently one of the top-rated shows on television. As a lifelong fan, I have tuned in often. In...
View ArticlePushing Back Against Football, For Our Boys and Men: The First Annual CTE...
(HOUSTON, January 30, 2017) We gathered on Sunday night in a hotel room at the St. Regents Hotel in Houston. The families of men and boys who had played football, got CTE, and lost their lives. Chronic...
View ArticleMastery of Joy
— In Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals Golden State gets the loose ball and drives the lane for a basket with less than a minute remaining to win their second straight NBA Championship. Lebron James scans...
View ArticleThe Chip on Your Shoulder
— Inevitably, you’ve heard mentioned, “he [or she] has a chip on their shoulder.” The phrase “carry that chip on your shoulder” dates back to US shipyards back in the late 1800s. Men would literally...
View ArticleYour First Love: Discovering Balance
Embed from Getty Images — Super Bowl 52 was perhaps the all-time greatest Super Bowl. Congratulations to the World Champion Philadelphia Eagles. And I’m a Tom Brady fan. 40-year-old Quarterback Tom...
View ArticlePlay the Greater Than Game. Not the Perfection Game.
— I watched the 2018 World Figure Skating Championships. In competition, each participant starts off with the predefined perfect score. As they perform judges deduct points for each infraction or...
View Article6 Things You Can’t Win (and How to Win Them)
Not everything is a contest, but you can always be a winner. Here’s how. —– We live in a very competitive world, perhaps even more so here in the United States where we’ve managed to turn weight...
View ArticleFootball is My Guilty Pleasure
As a man who prides himself on eschewing violent, hyper-masculine pastimes, I still find it very difficult to give up watching professional football, especially once the playoffs begin. I promise...
View ArticleCreate Art in Others
— “What are you willing to do and what are you willing to give up to be the best that you can be?” – Tom Brady 41-year-old All-Pro Quarterback Tom Brady lead his New England Patriots down the field in...
View ArticleSix(ish) Thoughts on the Super Bowl
— 1. I never really watch the Super Bowl. For the last two years, my daughter has had a lot to do with that: bedtimes, bottles, and poopy diapers — you get the picture. But even before Emersyn Lynn...
View ArticleArt in Mastery: Execution and Gratitude
“Good players can overcome bad coaching.” – Bill Belichick “I didn’t do anything. You did it.” – Sensei Dan Mizukami The New England Patriots beat the Los Angeles Rams in Atlanta to win their sixth...
View ArticleNot So Super Bowl
Seems recently there was a football game of some importance. I wish they would do a better job of promoting these things. Pregame; Forever No, not really. For the last two weeks, all I have heard about...
View ArticleJust Like Me
I was fifteen and had just started an internship at PM Magazine, Providence’s evening half-hour local interest show. I’d been watching PM Magazine with my family since its inception a few years earlier...
View ArticleLife in the Art of Losing
— “Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win. But never to accept the way to lose. To accept defeat, to learn the way to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free...
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