I love this story in Steve Biddulph’s Manhood:
“Our system has one outstanding way of holding men in place – it’s called a mortgage. When you go for that vital interview at the bank you walk out with a a hundred thousand dollars. It’s a miracle, but something else happens, something they don’t tell you about. [...]
I have my 2-year-old son by myself every Wednesday (today) for our ‘Daddy Day’. It’s a great thing to do. Without it, I don’t think I’d know him half as well and it’s (mostly) a heap of fun. We roam around town and the countryside causing mischief and mayhem, often with our two dogs in [...]
I’ve often cone across literature that suggests men don’t truly become men until they’re 35. In fact I read a lovely quote from Cezanne the other day who said, “Until the age of forty I lived a bohemian: I wasted my life. It was only later that I developed a taste for work.”
I find this [...]