I always wondered why aviators in those old open cockpit plans wore silk scarves. Was it just that they looked so dashing? It certainly couldn't be to keep them warm, could it? This article proposes some reasonable ideas for the practice, but I'm convinced I've figured it out. A few years ago, we took our…
A new review this morning! From Wendy & her Lost Boys, by Angie, a mother of five boys: As I mentioned last week, I’ve been reading Raising Real Men: Surviving, Teaching, and Appreciating Boys by Hal and Melanie Young. I finished it yesterday, and plan to read it again after Larry gets a turn. Put…
The husband of an aid worker in Haiti drove a hundred miles in answer to his wife's call for help, then dug her out from underneath a foot of concrete rubble. The Associated Press story is here. One does wonder where the men in the neighborhood were. A hundred mile drive in Haiti isn't like I-95…
Yesterday our teens took a 15 passenger van full of friends to a huge Christian concert in another city. Some of our friends were very concerned. Weren't we worried? Was that really safe? How would they manage the parking, the concert venue, staying together? Why did I let them do that when we were already…
Teaching Our Own, a blog by Angie Maniam-Ng in Singapore published this fantastic review of Raising Real Men: Raising Real Men is so HOT OFF THE PRESS that the copyright on the book is 2010! We have just brough in a whole case of this book because it was such a good read and we…
After our eldest, John Calvin, read his dad's Ten Moments in Manhood list, he sent us a link to an incredible YouTube video. In this 3D animation of Captain Sullenberger's Hudson landing, you can see it all happen up close. What I found most fascinating was listening to the actual audio while being able to…
Since the annual "Year in Review" and "Top Ten" articles are appearing in the media this week, I thought I'd take a quick look at ten stories that illustrate what it means to be a real man - or what can happen when you abandon that ideal. These may not be the biggest and greatest…
This morning, I had the misfortune to read the repulsive story of a punk who fled his car to avoid the police and left his baby behind. After reading it, I was thinking about why we have such a visceral reaction to a story like this. I think it is because God intended for marriage…