Year Gone By

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Ten Things I Learned from Bill Porter
by Shelly Brady, William H. Macy

"Bill Porter worked for the Watkins Corp., selling household products door-to-door in one of Portland’s worst neighborhoods. Afflicted with cerebral palsy and burdened with continual pain, Porter was determined not to live on government disability and went on to become Watkins’s top-grossing salesman in Portland, the Northwest, and the U.S. Mr. Porter was profiled in a piece on 20/20 and his amazing story is the basis for a made for T.V. movie starring William H. Macy that aired July 14th on TNT."

JEFF'S LIFE... monthly column by Jeff Stimpson
Year Gone By
I went to lower Manhattan last fall, when the junkyard still stood seven stories high, the now-famous scorched girders grasping for the sky. Gray snow dusted the bank signs. National Guardsmen and cops kept people moving. Nobody spoke much. Workers had spray-painted WEAR YOUR BREATHING MASKS! on one of the buildings abandoned nearby. I had no breathing mask, and the place smelled dirty and cold. Somebody said it smelled like lost souls.  
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GUEST ARTICLE... by Glenn J. Sacks
Baseball Player's Domestic Violence Arrest Demonstrates How Men are Presumed Guilty in Domestic Disputes
Baltimore Orioles pitcher Scott Erickson was arrested after an altercation with his girlfriend last week--the latest example of how police often arrest men who have been attacked by their female partners.
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COYOTE... monthly column by Dick Prosapio
Of Mice and Me
I once used to invite people to my home in Chicago to; "Listen to some sounds." Now that I'm living in New Mexico I invite people over to see my pump house. A pump house out here is NOT a franchised version of a Loop bar. It is just what it sounds like, a place wherein a (water) pump sits. Actually, "resides" is more like it.
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THE NEW INTIMACY... monthly column by Judith Sherven, Ph.D. and James Sniechowski, Ph.D.
The Unexpected
Sad to say, many of us were raised to create marriages and family life in a well regulated and predictable fashion. And then, lo and behold, life seems boring and tedious.
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Reviews Archive... Reviews of men's issues books by J. Steven Svoboda.

VETERANS HONOR ROLL... Pay tribute to the Veterans in your life on our perpetual Veterans Honor Roll page
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FATHERS HONOR ROLL... Pay tribute to your father (grandfather, great grandfather, etc.) on our perpetual Fathers Honor Roll page
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