The following story appeared as a guest post by Mark Kinsley on Q’s Views — the blog of Mark Quinn. I have obtained the permission of Los Dos Marcos to reproduce it in part here. Click here to read the original post. I want to feature this story here because young men are complaining that […]
When my older son was about to turn ten, I began a three-year process of initiating him into manhood. (How I came to this decision is the subject of an upcoming post.) The first part of this entailed a four-day backpacking trip along a segment of the Foothills Trail in the mountains of South Carolina. Here […]
“It’s better to build boys than to mend men.” – S. Truett Cathy Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy died today at the age of 93. It’s hard to imagine now, but Chick-fil-A wasn’t always a major brand or a nationwide enterprise. Under the patient leadership of Truett Cathy, Chick-fil-A grew purposefully to become one of America’s […]
Work is not a four-letter word. Oh sure, on Sunday nights it’s often difficult to unplug from recreation and recapture — or manufacture — the appropriate enthusiasm for the day job. But there are great rewards and greater opportunities coming to those with a winning work ethic. It may surprise you to learn that an elevated […]
After getting numerous phone solicitations mangling the pronunciation of this blog’s name, and after numerous quizzical looks when I’ve told friends what the title of this blog is, I’ve decided an explanation might be in order. Ontozoan is a word I coined and it is the name of this blog and of one of the […]
It is is hard to describe the condition of masculinity in the US as anything other than grim. Women earn close to 60% of the college degrees awarded each year, and since a college degree is the price of admission to most salaried jobs, this places men at a disadvantage in launching a career. The knowledge […]
Welcome to my first post. I’m starting this blog because I believe that there is a crisis among millennial men and women, and I want to encourage you — my brothers — to be part of the solution. There is enough brokenness in both sexes and therefore more than enough blame to go around. But instead of fixating […]
